Cloud DR - AWS notification for RDS database instances Certificate Renewal

AWS email notification update regarding RDS Virtual Machines that run in AWS Cloud that are a part of the Cloud DR environment.

 

AWS notification email example: 

You are receiving this message because your AWS Account has one or more Amazon RDS, or Amazon Aurora database instances in the xxx Region using an SSL/TLS Certificate that is expiring on August 22, 2024.



If your applications connect to these instances using the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) or Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol, you will need to take action before August 22, 2024 to prevent connectivity failures to your existing database instances.



To protect your communications with your database instances, a Certificate Authority (CA) generates time-bound certificates that are checked by your database client software to authenticate any database instance before exchanging information. Following industry best practices, AWS renews the CA and creates new certificates on a routine basis to ensure customer connections are properly protected for years to come. The current CA in CA-CENTRAL-1 will expire on August 22, 2024. Before this date you will need to first add new CA certificates to the trust stores in your client applications and then update the certificates on your database instances to the latest issued version.



For detailed instructions on how to perform these updates please see the Amazon RDS instances [1] and Amazon Aurora instances [2] documentation.



The ca-certificate-identifier option on the create-db-instance API is available for you to create a DB instance with a specific CA. For more information, see the create-db-instance API documentation [3].



A modify-certificates API is also available that will allow you to temporarily override the default CA on newly created database instances to either the old or new CA. This override will only apply while the CA you are overriding to is valid. To use this API you will need to be running the AWS CLI version 1.17 or later. For more information see the modify-certificates API documentation [4].



If you have questions or concerns, please contact AWS Support [5].



[1] https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/UsingWithRDS.SSL-certificate-rotation.html__;!!LpKI!hnjics5pQu8w-FsnZiBC-09YaOY7iNreldAUo72R2BImcXEGq11Mll3Ss1tYIbhWjSt3Xzz19VrkrvmjHy4HgA$ [docs[.]aws[.]amazon[.]com] [2] https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/AuroraUserGuide/UsingWithRDS.SSL-certificate-rotation.html__;!!LpKI!hnjics5pQu8w-FsnZiBC-09YaOY7iNreldAUo72R2BImcXEGq11Mll3Ss1tYIbhWjSt3Xzz19VrkrvnKWKp0YQ$ [docs[.]aws[.]amazon[.]com] [3] https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/rds/create-db-instance.html__;!!LpKI!hnjics5pQu8w-FsnZiBC-09YaOY7iNreldAUo72R2BImcXEGq11Mll3Ss1tYIbhWjSt3Xzz19VrkrvmcmURvXQ$ [docs[.]aws[.]amazon[.]com] [4] https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/rds/modify-certificates.html__;!!LpKI!hnjics5pQu8w-FsnZiBC-09YaOY7iNreldAUo72R2BImcXEGq11Mll3Ss1tYIbhWjSt3Xzz19VrkrvkynZBscg$ [docs[.]aws[.]amazon[.]com] [5] https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://console.aws.amazon.com/support/home__;!!LpKI!hnjics5pQu8w-FsnZiBC-09YaOY7iNreldAUo72R2BImcXEGq11Mll3Ss1tYIbhWjSt3Xzz19VrkrvkMkj534g$ [console[.]aws[.]amazon[.]com]

Information from AWS Support regarding the RDS Virtual Machines in the Cloud:

1. It is confirmed that, by default, RDS is not configured to force Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) connections.
2. AWS support suggests that if the application is not explicitly configured to use SSL connections, it is possible to ignore this warning as the update does not impact you.
3. Explicitly CDRS connections to RDS to use SSL are not configured.

No action is required as this update from AWS does not impact CDR - RDS.