Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) discovery with Patterns

  • Rversion finale: Australia
  • Mis à jour 12 mars 2026
  • 3 minutes de lecture

    • Discovery and Service Mapping Patterns uses the Amazon AWS Relational Database Service pattern to find Amazon RDS components in your environment. Discovering some of these resources may require updating to the latest version of the Discovery and Service Mapping Patterns application from the ServiceNow Store.

    Amazon RDS is a managed relational database service by Amazon Web Services (AWS). Amazon RDS enables you to create and manage relational database instances in the cloud.

    The ServiceNow AI Platform supports Amazon Commercial Cloud Services (C2S) for discovery and cloud governance. C2S is the government program that brings AWS into the Intelligence Community.

    Pattern-based discovery and mapping requirements

    Verify the AWS discovery prerequisites section in AWS discovery using patterns.

    Support for AWS services in the China region

    The latest version of Discovery and Service Mapping Patterns supports discovering AWS services in the China region. You can discover these services on the ServiceNow AI Platform, starting from Xanadu Patch 3 and Washington DC Patch 9 instances.

    Discovering AWS services in the China region requires using a datacenter URL when setting up an AWS service account. For example: https://organizations.cn-northwest-1.amazonaws.com.cn.

    • To learn more about AWS master account and sub-account support in the China region, see KB1704526.
    • To identify AWS patterns supported in the China region, refer to the Cloud Discovery patterns spreadsheet. The AWS China Region Support column has a Yes value for supported patterns.

    Data collected by Discovery during horizontal discovery

    Discovery populates the data in the CMDB when running the Amazon AWS Relational Database Service pattern.

    Tableau 1. Cloud DataBase [cmdb_ci_cloud_database]
    Field Description
    Object ID [object_id] Unique identifier for the RDS database instance, assigned by AWS.
    Name [name] Name of the database. If no database name is provided, the value is the same as the Object ID.
    Fully qualified domain name [fqdn] Fully qualified domain name (FQDN) endpoint used to connect to the database instance.
    TCP port(s) [tcp_port] Port number on which the database instance accepts connections.
    Type [type] Database engine type.

    For example: mysql, postgres, or aurora.
    Version [version] Database engine version number.
    Category [category] DB instance class that specifies the compute and memory capacity.

    For example: db.t3.micro or db.m5.large.
    IP Address [ip_address] IP address resolved from the FQDN.
    State [state] State of the database instance.

    For example: Available or Terminated.
    Automated Backups [automated_backup] Indicates whether automated backups are enabled and the retention period. Possible values are either Disabled or Enabled (X Days), where X represents the backup retention period in days.
    Deletion Protection Enabled [deletion_protection_enabled] Indicates whether deletion protection is enabled for the database instance. Possible values are true or false.
    • true: Deletion protection is enabled and the database can't be deleted
    • false: Deletion protection is disabled
    IAM Authentication Enabled [iam_authentication_enabled] Indicates whether AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) database authentication is enabled. Possible values are true or false.
    • true: IAM authentication is enabled and you can use IAM credentials to authenticate to the database
    • false: IAM authentication is disabled
    Storage Encrypted [storage_encrypted] Indicates whether the database storage is encrypted.
    Multiple Availability Zones [multi_az] Indicates whether the database instance is deployed across multiple Availability Zones for high availability.
    Publicly Enabled [publicly_enabled] Indicates whether the database instance is publicly accessible from the internet.
    Vendor [vendor] Database vendor.

    Value is set to Amazon.
    Install Status [install_status] Install status of the database instance. Default value is Installed.
    Operational status [operational_status] Operational status of the database instance. Default value is Operational.
    Tableau 2. IP Address [cmdb_ci_ip_address]
    Field Description
    IP Address [ip_address] IP address resolved from the database instance FQDN.
    Netmask [netmask] Network mask for the IP address.

    Value is set to 0.0.0.0.
    Tableau 3. Availability Zone [cmdb_ci_availability_zone]
    Field Description
    Object ID [object_id] Availability Zone identifier.
    Name [name] Availability Zone name.
    Tableau 4. Cloud Network [cmdb_ci_network]
    Field Description
    Object ID [object_id] Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) identifier for the network containing the database instance.

    CI relationships

    The Amazon AWS Relational Database Service pattern creates these relationships to support Amazon RDS discovery.

    CI Relationship CI
    Availability Zone [cmdb_ci_availability_zone] Contains::Contained by Cloud DataBase [cmdb_ci_cloud_database]
    AWS Datacenter [cmdb_ci_aws_datacenter] Contains::Contained by Availability Zone [cmdb_ci_availability_zone]
    Cloud DataBase [cmdb_ci_cloud_database] Owns::Owned by IP Address [cmdb_ci_ip_address]
    Cloud DataBase [cmdb_ci_cloud_database] Uses::Used by Cloud Network [cmdb_ci_network]
    Cloud Network [cmdb_ci_network] Hosted on::Hosts AWS Datacenter [cmdb_ci_aws_datacenter]
    Key Value [cmdb_key_value] References Cloud DataBase [cmdb_ci_cloud_database]

    AWS Tag discovery

    The Amazon AWS Relational Database Service pattern collects tags and populates them in the Key Value [cmdb_key_value] table.

    Tableau 5. Key Value [cmdb_key_value]
    Field Description
    Key [key] Tag name.
    Value [value] Tag value.
    Configuration item [configuration_item] References the Cloud DataBase [cmdb_ci_cloud_database] table.