IAM database authentication for MySQL and PostgreSQL

• You can authenticate to your DB instance using IAM database authentication.

• It works with MySQL and PostgreSQL.

• You don't need to use a password when you connect to a DB instance.

  • Instead, you use an authentication token.

• An authentication token is a unique string of characters that RDS generates on request.

• You don't need to store user credentials in the database, because authentication is managed externally using IAM.

• It provides the following benefits:

  • Network traffic to and from the database is encrypted using SSL or TLS.

  • Use IAM to centrally manage access to your database resources, instead of managing access individually on each DB instance.