Today, we are launching dynamic data masking feature for Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition. This addition to the Aurora security toolkit enables column-level protection, working in tandem with PostgreSQL’s native row-level security to deliver comprehensive, granular access control.
Amazon Aurora is a MySQL and PostgreSQL-compatible relational database offering high performance and open-source flexibility. Organizations using Aurora need to protect sensitive data while providing different access levels to users based on their roles.
In this post we show how dynamic data masking can help you meet data privacy requirements. We discuss how this feature is implemented and demonstrate how it works with PostgreSQL role hierarchy. The feature is available for Aurora PostgreSQL version 16.10 and higher, and 17.6.
Data masking: Requirement and use cases
Enterprises in regulated industries such as banks, insurance providers, FinTech, and…
