# rds-snapshots-public-prohibited
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Checks if Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) snapshots are public. The rule is NON\$1COMPLIANT if any existing and new Amazon RDS snapshots are public. 

**Note**  
It can take up to 12 hours for compliance results to be captured.



**Identifier:** RDS\$1SNAPSHOTS\$1PUBLIC\$1PROHIBITED

**Resource Types:** AWS::RDS::DBClusterSnapshot, AWS::RDS::DBSnapshot

**Trigger type:** Configuration changes

**AWS Region:** All supported AWS regions except Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Europe (Milan), Israel (Tel Aviv), Europe (Spain), Europe (Zurich) Region

**Parameters:**

None  

## AWS CloudFormation template
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To create AWS Config managed rules with AWS CloudFormation templates, see [Creating AWS Config Managed Rules With AWS CloudFormation Templates](aws-config-managed-rules-cloudformation-templates.md).