Category: AWS Directory Service

With Amazon RDS for Db2, you can seamlessly authenticate your users and groups with or without Kerberos authentication using a single AWS Microsoft AD directory that can serve multiple accounts. In this post, we use AWS Managed Microsoft AD from an AWS account to provide Microsoft AD authentication to Amazon RDS for Db2 in a different account.

Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition offers multiple authentication methods to securely authenticate database user access and meet different security needs. The most common method of authentication is using a user name and password. This can create additional overhead for both users and database administrators to manage and rotate these credentials; it also requires additional investments in […]

How can you simplify the setup and maintenance and reduce the costs of AWS Managed Microsoft AD directories, while also strengthen the security of your Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for SQL Server DB instances? AWS announced that you can now join your Amazon RDS for SQL Server DB instances deployed across multiple AWS accounts […]