AWS Database Authentication with IAM

Zhimin Wen
4 min readJan 16, 2022

AWS RDS allows IAM authentication for MySQL, Postgres, and Aurora (both MySQL and Postgres). With the authentication delicate to IAM, you will not need to manage the password for each user, instead, the user will log in with the AWS token generated.

Let’s explore Aurora MySQL database authentication with AWS IAM.

Provision of the Aurora MySQL

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