Connecting to Amazon Aurora with AWS IAM DB authentication
问题 I know that with Amazon Aurora MySQL, we can authenticate to the DB instance or DB cluster using AWS IAM database authentication. I followed the instructions here and It is working as instructed. However, this solution still needs the AWS credentials to be stored on the EC2 instance. I thought the whole purpose of this is to use the IAM roles to manage temporary credentials for applications running on an EC2 instance, so that we do not have to distribute long-term credentials (such as a user