AWS Security Blog
Category: Amazon RDS
Improve security of Amazon RDS master database credentials using AWS Secrets Manager
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon 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. Amazon RDS now offers integration with Secrets Manager to manage master database credentials. You no longer have to manage master database credentials, such as […]
Enabling data classification for Amazon RDS database with Macie
August 21, 2025: Steps 2 and 3 have been updated in this post to reflect the updated console. Customers have been asking us about ways to use Amazon Macie data discovery on their Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) instances. This post presents how to do so using AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) to […]
Use a single AWS Managed Microsoft AD for Amazon RDS for SQL Server instances in multiple Regions
Many Amazon 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 […]
A Primer on RDS Resource-Level Permissions
Previously, we blogged about how to use resource-level permissions for Amazon EC2 to control access to specific EC2 instances. Resource-level permissions can now also be applied to Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon 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 […]