Understanding and setting up the Aurora RDS

In Chapter 5, Understanding Vulnerable RDS Services, we took a look at relational databases and set up our own RDS database, as well as implemented MySQL as the underlying service running on the RDS instance. As you saw, it's relatively straightforward to set up a database, so now we are going to start looking at Aurora.

One benefit of Aurora is simplicity, something that we are going to take a look at when we set up an Aurora cluster. Because Aurora runs on top of RDS, it does most of the heavy lifting and allows you to interface with everything the same as you would before. Another great benefit to Aurora is security. Aurora uses encryption of both data at rest and data in transit. Encryption at both levels ensures the confidentiality of the data that is either being stored or used. When pentesting, data such as personal identifiable information (PII) is extremely sensitive and should be disclosed if found unencrypted.

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