AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate SAA-C03 — Topic 1 Question 339

Question

A company has a custom application with embedded credentials that retrieves information from an Amazon RDS MySQL DB instance. Management says the application must be made more secure with the least amount of programming effort. What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

Accepted Answer

Correct answer: C. The correct answer is C. Option C: Create credentials on the RDS for MySQL database for the application user and store the credentials in AWS Secrets Manager. Configure the application to load the database credentials from Secrets Manager. Set up a cre... Amazon RDS is a managed relational database that handles patching, backups and failover. AWS Secrets Manager stores and automatically rotates secrets such as database credentials. AWS Config tracks resource configuration changes and evaluates compliance.

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate SAA-C03 — Question 339