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Author: Mahesh Balumuri
Mahesh Balumuri is a cloud architect, DevOps specialist, and AI/ML enthusiast with AWS Professional Services, helping enterprise customers modernize, migrate, and scale on AWS. His expertise spans application development, SaaS, MLOps, cloud-native and containerized architectures, and data migration strategies. Passionate about Physical AI and robotics, he thrives on solving complex technical challenges and delivering infrastructure solutions that drive real business transformation.
IAM role-based authentication to Amazon Aurora from serverless applications
January 2024: This post was reviewed and updated for accuracy. Storing user names and passwords directly in applications is not a best practice. Saving credentials as plaintext should never occur in a secure application. As a solution, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies can assign permissions that determine who is allowed to manage Amazon […]