April 17, 2024, 4:55 p.m. | Saloni Singh

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Exploring AWS !!


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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