AWS Tutorial | IAM Database Authentication for MySQL and PostgreSQL

You can authenticate to your DB instance using AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) database authentication. IAM database authentication works with MySQL and PostgreSQL. With this authentication method, 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 Amazon RDS generates on request. Authentication tokens are generated using AWS Signature Version 4. Each token has a lifetime of 15 minutes. You don't need to store user credentials in the database, because authentication is managed externally using IAM. You can also still use standard database authentication.
Link to document: docs.google.com/document/d/1qIQxpzD2lg9xK8bdBwtMPf-58djQb0Sbvqm5GpacILU/edit?usp=sharing

[@s3-shouldersurfersecurity209]

Can you provide a sequence diagram to this flow? Will I need to generate a token everytime I need to connect? thx

[@dominikastachnialek3394]

excellent tutorial. logical, simple, very clear. great job.

[@simurgrai]

Why do you need mysql-server package? You only need mysql client to connect to RDS.

[@RanveerSingh-us9ll]

HI , I am facing "ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user 'xxxxx'@'xxxxxxx' (using password: YES)" by using token.

[@aiya2323]

Why did you add PostgreSQL if PostgreSQL demo was not shown ?

[@Googlepaynnn]

It's only 15min, it's possible to extend more time?

[@_simplerecipes_]

Nice setup Rohan . Can you go through your setup and explain how you record and edit this video's. Thanks again

[@RaulGarcia-uz1jc]

how i can connect from my machine through visual studio code connecting ec2

[@RohanAroraAWS]

Hi Raul, I don't have much experience working on Visual Studio, hence I will not be able to answer it precisely.