AWS Certified SysOps Administrator SOA-C01 – Question478

Is it possible to protect the connections between your application servers and your MySQL instances using SSL encryption?

A.
Yes, it is possible but only in certain regions.
B. Yes
C. No
D. Yes, it is possible but only in VPC.

Correct Answer: B

Explanation:

Explanation: To further enhance the security of your infrastructure, AWS allows you to SSL encrypt the commu
nications between your EC2 instances and your MySQL instances. Amazon RDS generates an SSL certificate for each DB Instance. Once an encrypted connection is established, data transferred be-tween the DB Instance and your application will be encrypted during transfer. Reference: http://aws.amazon.com/rds/faqs/#53