Redshift Audit Logging Disabled

What this rule checks

Detects Redshift clusters without audit logging to S3 (connection, user, query activity).

How to fix it

1. 1Set LoggingProperties with a target S3 bucket and key prefix

import { Stack, App } from 'aws-cdk-lib';
import { Construct } from 'constructs';
import * as redshift from 'aws-cdk-lib/aws-redshift';

new redshift.CfnCluster(this, 'Cluster', {
  clusterType: 'single-node',
  dbName: 'analytics',
  masterUsername: 'admin',
  masterUserPassword: '{{resolve:secretsmanager:redshift/admin}}',
  nodeType: 'ra3.xlplus',
  encrypted: true,
  publiclyAccessible: false,
});

import { Stack, App } from 'aws-cdk-lib';
import { Construct } from 'constructs';
import * as redshift from 'aws-cdk-lib/aws-redshift';

new redshift.CfnCluster(this, 'Cluster', {
  clusterType: 'single-node',
  dbName: 'analytics',
  masterUsername: 'admin',
  masterUserPassword: '{{resolve:secretsmanager:redshift/admin}}',
  nodeType: 'ra3.xlplus',
  encrypted: true,
  publiclyAccessible: false,
  loggingProperties: { logDestinationType: 'cloudwatch', logExports: ['connectionlog', 'useractivitylog'] },
});

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Affected resource types

Intentional? Suppress this finding

Sometimes a flag is deliberate — a genuinely public endpoint, say. You can dismiss redshift-audit-logging-disabled and the reason is kept in the report, not silently hidden.

In .cdk-insights.json:

{
  "ignoreRules": [
    { "id": "redshift-audit-logging-disabled", "reason": "Why this is intentional" }
  ]
}

Or inline in your CDK code:

Validations.of(scope).acknowledge({
  id: 'cdk-insights::redshift-audit-logging-disabled',
  reason: 'Why this is intentional',
});

Use the rule ID redshift-audit-logging-disabled shown above — not the CDK-* ID from SARIF / GitHub code scanning. To dismiss every finding on one construct instead, use ignorePaths. Suppression docs →

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