🛡️ AWS RDS Instance is located in a less cost-effective region🟢

• Contextual name: 🛡️ Instance is located in a less cost-effective region🟢
• ID: /ce/ca/aws/rds/instance-cost-effective-region
• Tags:
  • 🟢 Policy with categories
  • 🟢 Policy with type
  • 🟢 Production policy
• Policy Type: BEST_PRACTICE
• Policy Categories: COST

Logic

• 🧠 prod.logic.yaml🟢
  • 📗 AWS RDS Instance
  • 🔌 AWS RDS Instance - object.extracts.yaml
  • 🧪 test-data.json

Description

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Description

This policy identifies AWS RDS Instances that are provisioned in AWS regions known to have higher pricing compared to nearby alternatives.

Rationale

Although pricing varies by instance type, certain AWS regions generally incur higher costs for compute resources. Running workloads in these regions can significantly increase operational expenses without delivering additional benefits, unless the region is specifically required for latency, compliance, or data residency. Identifying these instances allows you to assess whether migrating them to a lower-cost region is feasible, potentially resulting in substantial savings.

Impact

Migrating workloads to different regions requires careful planning to avoid service disruptions and to ensure latency, compliance, and data sovereignty requirements continue to be met.

Audit

This policy flagged an AWS RDS Instance as INCOMPLIANT if it is available in one of the following regions identified as less cost-efficient:

| Region | Recommended Alternative |

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Remediation

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Remediation

Key Considerations

• Coordinate migration with application and database owners to minimize downtime.
• Identify all dependent components (EC2, Lambda, VPC, networking, etc.) that may also need to move.
• Select the migration approach based on engine type, business tolerance for downtime, and replication support.

Summary Table

Migration Approach	Amazon RDS for MySQL	Amazon RDS for MariaDB	Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL	Amazon Aurora MySQL	Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL
Snapshot Restore for Cross-Region Migration	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
Read Replica for Cross-Region Migration	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported	Not Supported
Aurora Global Database	Not Supported	Not Supported	Not Supported	Supported	Supported

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policy.yaml

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Linked Framework Sections

Section	Sub Sections	Internal Rules	Policies	Flags	Compliance
💼 Cloudaware Framework → 💼 Resource Optimization			24		no data