Learning AWS Day by Day — Day 39 — Amazon RDS — Part 2

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Day 39:

Amazon RDS — Part 2

Previously we’ve learnt about backups, read replicas and disaster recovery strategies of RDS. Today we will dive deeper into some other concepts of RDS.

RDS Security — Encryption:

Encryption at Rest-

• Possibility to encrypt master and read replicas with AWS KMS-AES-256 encryption.


• Encryption has to be defined at launch time.


• If Master is not encrypted, Read Replicas cannot be encrypted.


• Transport Data Encryption (TDE) available for Oracle and SQL server. …

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