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Author: Roneel Kumar
Roneel Kumar is a Sr. Database Specialist Solutions Architect at AWS who specializes in Relational Database Engines. He provides technical assistance, operational, and database best practices to customers in the Asia Pacific region.
Active Directory Authentication and Authorization with Amazon RDS
Learn how to set up Active Directory authentication with authorization for Postgres. Heimdall Data provides synchronization scripts for other databases as well, allowing all Amazon RDS instance types to be supported in a similar way. Using Active Directory authentication allows organizations to standardize their password and authorization management via a globally available authentication store, reducing management overhead and improving security and auditing capabilities.