Supported Regions and DB engines for IAM database authentication in Amazon RDS - Amazon Relational Database Service
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Supported Regions and DB engines for IAM database authentication in Amazon RDS

By using IAM database authentication in Amazon RDS, you can authenticate without a password when you connect to a DB instance. Instead, you use an authentication token. For more information, see IAM database authentication for MariaDB, MySQL, and PostgreSQL.

IAM database authentication isn't available with the following engines:

  • RDS for Db2

  • RDS for Oracle

  • RDS for SQL Server

IAM database authentication with RDS for MariaDB

The following Regions and engine versions are available for IAM database authentication with RDS for MariaDB.

Region RDS for MariaDB 10.11 RDS for MariaDB 10.6 RDS for MariaDB 10.5 RDS for MariaDB 10.4 RDS for MariaDB 10.3
US East (Ohio) All available versions All available versions Not available Not available Not available
US East (N. Virginia) All available versions All available versions Not available Not available Not available
US West (N. California) All available versions All available versions Not available Not available Not available
US West (Oregon) All available versions All available versions Not available Not available Not available
Africa (Cape Town) All available versions All available versions Not available Not available Not available
Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) All available versions All available versions Not available Not available Not available
Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) Not available Not available Not available Not available Not available
Asia Pacific (Jakarta) All available versions All available versions Not available Not available Not available
Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Not available Not available Not available Not available Not available
Asia Pacific (Mumbai) All available versions All available versions Not available Not available Not available
Asia Pacific (Osaka) All available versions All available versions Not available Not available Not available
Asia Pacific (Seoul) All available versions All available versions Not available Not available Not available
Asia Pacific (Singapore) All available versions All available versions Not available Not available Not available
Asia Pacific (Sydney) All available versions All available versions Not available Not available Not available
Asia Pacific (Tokyo) All available versions All available versions Not available Not available Not available
Canada (Central) All available versions All available versions Not available Not available Not available
Canada West (Calgary) All available versions All available versions Not available Not available Not available
China (Beijing) All available versions All available versions Not available Not available Not available
China (Ningxia) All available versions All available versions Not available Not available Not available
Europe (Frankfurt) All available versions All available versions Not available Not available Not available
Europe (Ireland) All available versions All available versions Not available Not available Not available
Europe (London) All available versions All available versions Not available Not available Not available
Europe (Milan) All available versions All available versions Not available Not available Not available
Europe (Paris) All available versions All available versions Not available Not available Not available
Europe (Spain) Not available Not available Not available Not available Not available
Europe (Stockholm) All available versions All available versions Not available Not available Not available
Europe (Zurich) Not available Not available Not available Not available Not available
Israel (Tel Aviv) Not available Not available Not available Not available Not available
Middle East (Bahrain) All available versions All available versions Not available Not available Not available
Middle East (UAE) Not available Not available Not available Not available Not available
South America (São Paulo) All available versions All available versions Not available Not available Not available
Amazon GovCloud (US-East) All available versions All available versions Not available Not available Not available
Amazon GovCloud (US-West) All available versions All available versions Not available Not available Not available

IAM database authentication with RDS for MySQL

IAM database authentication with RDS for MySQL is available in all Regions for the following versions:

  • RDS for MySQL 8.0 – All available versions

  • RDS for MySQL 5.7 – All available versions

IAM database authentication with RDS for PostgreSQL

IAM database authentication with RDS for PostgreSQL is available in all Regions for the following versions:

  • RDS for PostgreSQL 16 – All available versions

  • RDS for PostgreSQL 15 – All available versions

  • RDS for PostgreSQL 14 – All available versions

  • RDS for PostgreSQL 13 – All available versions

  • RDS for PostgreSQL 12 – All available versions

  • RDS for PostgreSQL 11 – All available versions

  • RDS for PostgreSQL 10 – All available versions