Use Kerberos authentication with Amazon Aurora MySQL
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This article discusses how to integrate self-managed Microsoft Active Directory (AD) with AWS Managed Microsoft AD, enable Kerberos authentication in Amazon Aurora MySQL, and authenticate with Kerberos from Windows and Linux clients.
Specifically, the article covers:
- Overview of Kerberos authentication
- Solution architecture involving self-managed and AWS-managed AD environments
- Prerequisites like establishing forest trust between AD domains
- Creating an Aurora MySQL cluster and enabling Kerberos authentication
- Creating an AD domain user and database user for Kerberos authentication
- Configuring Kerberos on Windows and connecting to Aurora MySQL
- Configuring Kerberos on Linux and connecting to Aurora MySQL
- Cleaning up the resources after use
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