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Monitoring Amazon Aurora databases with IBM Guardium

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This article explains how to monitor Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL databases using IBM Guardium External S-TAP. IBM Guardium continuously monitors database activity, analyzes SQL statements, and detects potential security threats using advanced analytics and machine learning.

Specifically, the article covers:

  • Overview of IBM Guardium and its data protection capabilities
  • Architecture for deploying IBM Guardium External S-TAP on Amazon EKS to monitor Aurora databases
  • Prerequisites for setting up the solution
  • Detailed step-by-step instructions for implementation, including creating an EKS cluster, deploying External S-TAP, and configuring it with Aurora PostgreSQL
  • Validation steps to test and verify the monitoring
  • Clean up steps to remove the deployed resources


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