Cosmos DB should enable automatic failover

Applies to

• Microsoft.DocumentDB/databaseAccounts

What CGPulse checks

A resource passes this rule when enableAutomaticFailover must equal true. Anything else is reported as a finding with the evaluated property value attached as evidence.

How to fix it

Enable automatic failover to ensure availability during region outages. In Azure Portal: Cosmos DB > Replicate data globally > enable Automatic Failover. See: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cosmos-db/high-availability

CLI

az cosmosdb update --ids "{id}" --enable-automatic-failover true

Terraform

resource "azurerm_cosmosdb_account" "{name}" {
  name                       = "{name}"
  resource_group_name        = "{rg}"
  location                   = var.location
  offer_type                 = "Standard"
  kind                       = "GlobalDocumentDB"
  enable_automatic_failover  = true
  consistency_policy {
    consistency_level = "Session"
  }
  geo_location {
    location          = var.location
    failover_priority = 0
  }
}

Compliance frameworks

• Cloud Security BaselineBR-1

Related Azure rules

• Action Group should be enabled
• Activity Log Alert should be enabled
• AKS cluster logs should be sent to Log Analytics
• AKS cluster must enable RBAC
• AKS cluster must enable RBAC
• AKS cluster should be a private cluster
• AKS cluster should disable local accounts
• AKS cluster should enable Azure RBAC for Kubernetes