We can configure AWS Secrets Manager to manage credentials of an RDS database as follows:
- Go to the Secrets Manager service in the console.
- If we are using Secrets Manager for the first time, we should see the landing page with the Get Started section. Click on Store a new secret.
- For Select secret type, select Credentials for RDS database:
- Provide the User name and Password. For the Select the encryption key option, select DefaultEncryptionKey from the dropdown. We can also use a KMS encryption key we created.
- For the Select which RDS database this secret will access option, select the RDS database for which we want to ...