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Secure an RDS Instance
In this hands-on lab, you are asked to secure an RDS instance. After completing this lab, students will have hands-on experience enabling data encryption and creating user accounts on a PostgreSQL RDS instance.

Lab Info
Table of Contents
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Challenge
Enable Data Encryption
Enable data encryption on the RDS instance by copying an existing snapshot to an encrypted snapshot. The encrypted snapshot can then be used to crearte a new encrypted RDS instance.
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Challenge
Ensure Connectivity
Ensure the new encrypted instance is added only to the
DatabaseDSecurityGroup
security group. -
Challenge
Create User
Create a user named
remote
using thepsql
command.
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