diff --git a/assets/queries/terraform/aws/rds_deletion_protection_disabled/metadata.json b/assets/queries/terraform/aws/rds_deletion_protection_disabled/metadata.json
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..a5fca54095f
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+++ b/assets/queries/terraform/aws/rds_deletion_protection_disabled/metadata.json
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+{
+  "id": "26d982ac-b86d-4915-9372-e723b1c0b886",
+  "queryName": "RDS Deletion Protection Disabled",
+  "severity": "MEDIUM",
+  "category": "Insecure Configurations",
+  "descriptionText": "Amazon RDS instances and Aurora clusters should have deletion protection enabled to prevent accidental or malicious deletion of the database",
+  "descriptionUrl": "https://registry.terraform.io/providers/hashicorp/aws/latest/docs/resources/db_instance#deletion_protection",
+  "platform": "Terraform",
+  "descriptionID": "41f3fc5b",
+  "cloudProvider": "aws",
+  "cwe": "693",
+  "riskScore": "3"
+}
diff --git a/assets/queries/terraform/aws/rds_deletion_protection_disabled/query.rego b/assets/queries/terraform/aws/rds_deletion_protection_disabled/query.rego
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..5dc18b49a7d
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+++ b/assets/queries/terraform/aws/rds_deletion_protection_disabled/query.rego
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+package Cx
+
+import data.generic.common as common_lib
+import data.generic.terraform as tf_lib
+
+rdsResources := {"aws_db_instance", "aws_rds_cluster"}
+
+CxPolicy[result] {
+	resourceType := rdsResources[_]
+	resource := input.document[i].resource[resourceType][name]
+
+	not common_lib.valid_key(resource, "deletion_protection")
+
+	result := {
+		"documentId": input.document[i].id,
+		"resourceType": resourceType,
+		"resourceName": tf_lib.get_resource_name(resource, name),
+		"searchKey": sprintf("%s[%s]", [resourceType, name]),
+		"issueType": "MissingAttribute",
+		"keyExpectedValue": sprintf("'%s[%s].deletion_protection' should be defined and set to true", [resourceType, name]),
+		"keyActualValue": sprintf("'%s[%s].deletion_protection' is undefined or null", [resourceType, name]),
+		"searchLine": common_lib.build_search_line(["resource", resourceType, name], []),
+		"remediation": "deletion_protection = true",
+		"remediationType": "addition",
+	}
+}
+
+CxPolicy[result] {
+	resourceType := rdsResources[_]
+	resource := input.document[i].resource[resourceType][name]
+
+	resource.deletion_protection == false
+
+	result := {
+		"documentId": input.document[i].id,
+		"resourceType": resourceType,
+		"resourceName": tf_lib.get_resource_name(resource, name),
+		"searchKey": sprintf("%s[%s].deletion_protection", [resourceType, name]),
+		"issueType": "IncorrectValue",
+		"keyExpectedValue": sprintf("'%s[%s].deletion_protection' should be set to true", [resourceType, name]),
+		"keyActualValue": sprintf("'%s[%s].deletion_protection' is set to false", [resourceType, name]),
+		"searchLine": common_lib.build_search_line(["resource", resourceType, name, "deletion_protection"], []),
+		"remediation": json.marshal({
+			"before": "false",
+			"after": "true",
+		}),
+		"remediationType": "replacement",
+	}
+}
diff --git a/assets/queries/terraform/aws/rds_deletion_protection_disabled/test/negative.tf b/assets/queries/terraform/aws/rds_deletion_protection_disabled/test/negative.tf
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..e19af524e50
--- /dev/null
+++ b/assets/queries/terraform/aws/rds_deletion_protection_disabled/test/negative.tf
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+resource "aws_db_instance" "negative1" {
+  allocated_storage   = 10
+  engine              = "mysql"
+  instance_class      = "db.t3.micro"
+  deletion_protection = true
+}
+
+resource "aws_rds_cluster" "negative2" {
+  cluster_identifier  = "aurora-cluster-negative2"
+  engine              = "aurora-mysql"
+  master_username     = "foo"
+  master_password     = "barbarbar"
+  deletion_protection = true
+}
diff --git a/assets/queries/terraform/aws/rds_deletion_protection_disabled/test/positive.tf b/assets/queries/terraform/aws/rds_deletion_protection_disabled/test/positive.tf
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..8eab040cd31
--- /dev/null
+++ b/assets/queries/terraform/aws/rds_deletion_protection_disabled/test/positive.tf
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+resource "aws_db_instance" "positive1" {
+  allocated_storage   = 10
+  engine              = "mysql"
+  instance_class      = "db.t3.micro"
+  deletion_protection = false
+}
+
+resource "aws_db_instance" "positive2" {
+  allocated_storage = 10
+  engine            = "mysql"
+  instance_class    = "db.t3.micro"
+}
+
+resource "aws_rds_cluster" "positive3" {
+  cluster_identifier  = "aurora-cluster-positive3"
+  engine              = "aurora-mysql"
+  master_username     = "foo"
+  master_password     = "barbarbar"
+  deletion_protection = false
+}
+
+resource "aws_rds_cluster" "positive4" {
+  cluster_identifier = "aurora-cluster-positive4"
+  engine             = "aurora-mysql"
+  master_username    = "foo"
+  master_password    = "barbarbar"
+}
diff --git a/assets/queries/terraform/aws/rds_deletion_protection_disabled/test/positive_expected_result.json b/assets/queries/terraform/aws/rds_deletion_protection_disabled/test/positive_expected_result.json
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..38a3a3d1200
--- /dev/null
+++ b/assets/queries/terraform/aws/rds_deletion_protection_disabled/test/positive_expected_result.json
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+[
+  {
+    "queryName": "RDS Deletion Protection Disabled",
+    "severity": "MEDIUM",
+    "line": 5,
+    "fileName": "positive.tf"
+  },
+  {
+    "queryName": "RDS Deletion Protection Disabled",
+    "severity": "MEDIUM",
+    "line": 8,
+    "fileName": "positive.tf"
+  },
+  {
+    "queryName": "RDS Deletion Protection Disabled",
+    "severity": "MEDIUM",
+    "line": 19,
+    "fileName": "positive.tf"
+  },
+  {
+    "queryName": "RDS Deletion Protection Disabled",
+    "severity": "MEDIUM",
+    "line": 22,
+    "fileName": "positive.tf"
+  }
+]