In this post, we demonstrate how to configure IAM database authentication in AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS). You’ll also learn the structured troubleshooting approach you follow to address the errors when configuring IAM database authentication with AWS DMS
When configuring DMS endpoint, you either provide username-password or AWS Secrets Manager secrets in your source and target endpoint to authenticate with your source or target data store. Additionally, AWS DMS supports IAM database authentication for Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MySQL, Amazon RDS for MariaDB and Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL databases. You need an AWS DMS replication instance (version 3.6.1 or later), to use this feature.
Solution overview
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) database authentication solves these challenges of managing static database passwords and credential rotation overhead by using temporary, automatically-rotating…
