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Using SSL/TLS to Encrypt a Connection to a DB Instance

You can use Secure Socket Layer (SSL) or Transport Layer Security (TLS) from your application to encrypt a connection to a DB instance running MySQL, MariaDB, SQL Server, Oracle, or PostgreSQL. Each DB engine has its own process for implementing SSL/TLS. To learn how to implement SSL/TLS for your DB instance, use the link following that corresponds to your DB engine:

• Using SSL with a MariaDB DB Instance

• Using SSL with a Microsoft SQL Server DB Instance

• Using SSL with a MySQL DB Instance

• Using SSL with an Oracle DB Instance

• Using SSL with a PostgreSQL DB Instance

Important

For information about rotating your certificate, see Rotating Your SSL/TLS Certificate.

Note

All certificates are only available for download using SSL/TLS connections.

To get a root certificate that works for all AWS Regions, download from one of these locations:

• https://s3.amazonaws.com/rds-downloads/rds-ca-2019-root.pem (CA-2019)

• https://s3.amazonaws.com/rds-downloads/rds-ca-2015-root.pem (CA-2015)

This root certificate is a trusted root entity and should work in most cases but might fail if your application doesn't accept certificate chains. If your application doesn't accept certificate chains, download the AWS Region–specific certificate from the list of intermediate certificates found later in this section.

To get a certificate bundle that contains both the intermediate and root certificates, download from https://s3.amazonaws.com/rds-downloads/rds-combined-ca-bundle.pem.

If your application is on Microsoft Windows and requires a PKCS7 file, you can download the PKCS7 certificate bundle. This bundle contains both the intermediate and root certificates at https://s3.amazonaws.com/rds-downloads/rds-combined-ca-bundle.p7b.

Intermediate Certificates

You might need to use an intermediate certificate to connect to your AWS Region. For example, you must use an intermediate certificate to connect to the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region using SSL/TLS. If you need an intermediate certificate for a particular AWS Region, download the certificate from the following table.

AWS Region	CA-2019	CA-2015
Asia Pacific (Hong Kong)	rds-ca-2019-ap-east-1.pem	No certificate available
Asia Pacific (Mumbai)	rds-ca-2019-ap-south-1.pem	rds-ca-2015-ap-south-1.pem
Asia Pacific (Tokyo)	rds-ca-2019-ap-northeast-1.pem	rds-ca-2015-ap-northeast-1.pem
Asia Pacific (Seoul)	rds-ca-2019-ap-northeast-2.pem	rds-ca-2015-ap-northeast-2.pem
Asia Pacific (Osaka-Local)	rds-ca-2019-ap-northeast-3.pem	rds-ca-2015-ap-northeast-3.pem
Asia Pacific (Singapore)	rds-ca-2019-ap-southeast-1.pem	rds-ca-2015-ap-southeast-1.pem
Asia Pacific (Sydney)	rds-ca-2019-ap-southeast-2.pem	rds-ca-2015-ap-southeast-2.pem
Canada (Central)	rds-ca-2019-ca-central-1.pem	rds-ca-2015-ca-central-1.pem
EU (Frankfurt)	rds-ca-2019-eu-central-1.pem	rds-ca-2015-eu-central-1.pem
EU (Ireland)	rds-ca-2019-eu-west-1.pem	rds-ca-2015-eu-west-1.pem
EU (London)	rds-ca-2019-eu-west-2.pem	rds-ca-2015-eu-west-2.pem
EU (Paris)	rds-ca-2019-eu-west-3.pem	rds-ca-2015-eu-west-3.pem
EU (Stockholm)	rds-ca-2019-eu-north-1.pem	rds-ca-2015-eu-north-1.pem
Middle East (Bahrain)	rds-ca-2019-me-south-1.pem	No certificate available
South America (São Paulo)	rds-ca-2019-sa-east-1.pem	rds-ca-2015-sa-east-1.pem
US East (N. Virginia)	rds-ca-2019-us-east-1.pem	rds-ca-2015-us-east-1.pem
US East (Ohio)	rds-ca-2019-us-east-2.pem	rds-ca-2015-us-east-2.pem
US West (N. California)	rds-ca-2019-us-west-1.pem	rds-ca-2015-us-west-1.pem
US West (Oregon)	rds-ca-2019-us-west-2.pem	rds-ca-2015-us-west-2.pem

AWS GovCloud (US) Certificates

You can download a root certificate for the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region at https://s3-us-gov-west-1.amazonaws.com/rds-downloads/rds-GovCloud-Root-CA-2017.pem.

To get a certificate bundle that contains both the intermediate and root certificates for the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions, download from https://s3-us-gov-west-1.amazonaws.com/rds-downloads/rds-combined-ca-us-gov-bundle.pem.

You can download the intermediate certificate for an AWS GovCloud (US) Region from the following list:

AWS GovCloud (US-East) (CA-2017)

AWS GovCloud (US-West) (CA-2017)

AWS GovCloud (US-West) (CA-2012)