Category: HAQM RDS

HAQM Relational Database Service (HAQM RDS) makes it simpler to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the AWS Cloud. AWS Secrets Manager helps you manage, retrieve, and rotate database credentials, API keys, and other secrets. HAQM RDS now offers integration with Secrets Manager to manage master database credentials. You no longer have to manage master database credentials, such as […]

Customers have been asking us about ways to use HAQM Macie data discovery on their HAQM Relational Database Service (HAQM RDS) instances. This post presents how to do so using AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) to extract data from HAQM RDS, store it on HAQM Simple Storage Service (HAQM S3), and then classify the […]

Many HAQM Web Services (AWS) customers use Active Directory to centralize user authentication and authorization for a variety of applications and services. For these customers, Active Directory is a critical piece of their IT infrastructure. AWS offers AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory, also known as AWS Managed Microsoft AD, to provide a highly […]

Today, HAQM Redshift and HAQM RDS for MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, and SQL Server DB released support for encryption using AWS Key Management Service (KMS) in the AWS GovCloud (US) region. Using keys under your control, you can now encrypt RDS instances, including MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, and SQL Server DB instance types, and HAQM Redshift clusters in AWS GovCloud […]

If you are an HAQM RDS customer, you might have received email from AWS notifying you about rotating your SSL certificates. The SSL certificates for RDS database instances are being updated on March 23, 2015, at 20:00 UTC. The certificates are being updated as part of standard maintenance and security best practices for RDS, and […]

November 24, 2021: This blog post announced a feature of AWS CloudHSM Classic which integrated with HAQM RDS for Oracle to provide customers with an easy integration for Transparent Data Encryption (TDE). The AWS CloudHSM team have since released AWS CloudHSM, and this feature is no longer available. For updated options, please see out this […]

Today, HAQM RDS for MySQL and PostgreSQL released support for database encryption using AWS Key Management Service (KMS). This feature addresses a common request from customers who have asked for an easy way to encrypt data in these RDS database types. When you create a new MySQL or PostgreSQL database instance, you can choose to […]

Previously, we blogged about how to use resource-level permissions for HAQM EC2 to control access to specific EC2 instances.  Resource-level permissions can now also be applied to HAQM Relational Database Service (HAQM RDS).  This week’s guest blogger, Chris Checkwitch, Software Development Manager on the RDS team, will explain how to tackle the commonly requested use case of controlling access to […]