Using IAM authentication for Redis on AWS

How to securely connect your Go applications to Amazon MemoryDB (or ElastiCache) for Redis using IAM

Amazon MemoryDB for Redis has supported username/password based authentication using Access Control Lists since the very beginning. But you can also use IAM based authentication that allows you to associate IAM users and roles with MemoryDB users so that applications can use IAM credentials to authenticate to the MemoryDB cluster. With this authentication method, you don't need to use a (long-lived) user password. Instead, …

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