Connecting to your DB instance using IAM authentication with the Amazon drivers - Amazon Relational Database Service
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Connecting to your DB instance using IAM authentication with the Amazon drivers

The Amazon suite of drivers has been designed to provide support for faster switchover and failover times, and authentication with Amazon Secrets Manager, Amazon Identity and Access Management (IAM), and Federated Identity. The Amazon drivers rely on monitoring DB instance status and being aware of the instance topology to determine the new writer. This approach reduces switchover and failover times to single-digit seconds, compared to tens of seconds for open-source drivers.

For more information on the Amazon drivers, see the corresponding language driver for your RDS for MariaDB, RDS for MySQL, or RDS for PostgreSQL DB instance.

Note

The only features supported for RDS for MariaDB are authentication with Amazon Secrets Manager, Amazon Identity and Access Management (IAM), and Federated Identity.