Amazon DocumentDB announces IAM database authentication

The article discusses a new authentication feature in Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) that allows users and applications to authenticate with AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) users and roles ARNs when connecting to a DocumentDB cluster.

Specifically, the article covers:

• Users and applications can use their AWS IAM identity to authenticate connection requests to a DocumentDB cluster for reading, writing, updating, or deleting data.
• Applications on AWS services like EC2, Lambda, ECS, and EKS can use AWS IAM roles for passwordless authentication to DocumentDB.
• New and existing DocumentDB clusters can use AWS IAM for authentication without modifying cluster configuration, and can also support password-based authentication.
• The authentication feature is supported by MongoDB 5.0+ compatible drivers and is available across all supported AWS regions for instance-based 5.0 clusters.