Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Db2 now allows customers to directly join their RDS for Db2 DB instances to the domains of self-managed Microsoft Active Directory (AD). Self-managed AD can be on-premises, on AWS, or in another cloud. Customers use Kerberos as the authentication protocol to enable single sign-on for their database users. Previously, to use Kerberos authentication against a self-managed AD with their RDS for Db2 instances, customers were required to deploy AWS Managed Microsoft AD and establish a trust between the AWS managed domain and the self-managed domai

Source: AWS What's New — read the full report at the original publisher.

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