In this recipe, we will learn to use AWS Secrets Manager to manage RDS credentials. This is a more secure alternative to managing and rotating the RDS credentials manually.
Using AWS Secrets Manager to manage RDS credentials
Getting ready
We need a database instance created in RDS for completing the steps in this recipe. I have created an Amazon Aurora database with defaults.
How to do it...
We can configure AWS Secrets Manager to manage credentials of an RDS database as follows:
- Go to the Secrets Manager service in the console.
- If we are using Secrets Manager for the...