Monitoring Amazon Aurora databases with IBM Guardium
IBM and Red Hat Blog
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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