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Spring Boot + RDS Integration

Connecting a Spring Data JPA application to Amazon RDS securely and reliably — connection strings, IAM database authentication, connection pooling, and Secrets Manager-based credential rotation.

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🎓 Learning objectives

  • Configure Spring Boot's datasource properties to connect to an RDS instance
  • Explain the difference between password-based and IAM-based RDS authentication from Spring Boot
  • Understand why HikariCP connection pool sizing matters specifically alongside RDS connection limits
  • Describe how Secrets Manager rotation interacts with an already-running Spring Boot application's connection pool

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