Securing RDS with Teleport

Securing RDS with Teleport

Sep 21, 2023

The Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) is one of the most popular AWS services, making it simple to set up, operate, and scale databases in the cloud. As these databases often hold sensitive data, implementing secure access is often one of the first security challenges cloud engineering teams must solve. In this session, we will explore how Teleport can be used to achieve the following:

  • Identity-based, time-bound access to private RDS endpoints
  • Just-in-time elevated access
  • Full audit trail connecting identities to database queries