Amazon Web Services AWS Certified Associate DVA-C02 Question # 25 Topic 3 Discussion

This solution meets the requirements because it uses a PostgreSQL-compatible database that can secure and regularly rotate database credentials without requiring additional programming overhead. Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL is a relational database service that is compatible with PostgreSQL and offers high performance, availability, and scalability. AWS Secrets Manager is a service that helps you protect secrets needed to access your applications, services, and IT resources. You can store database credentials in AWS Secrets Manager and use them to access your Aurora PostgreSQL database. You can also enable automatic rotation of your secrets according to a schedule or an event. AWS Secrets Manager handles the complexity of rotating secrets for you, such as generating new passwords and updating your database with the new credentials. Using Amazon DynamoDB for the database will not meet the requirements because it is a NoSQL database that is not compatible with PostgreSQL. Using AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store for storing and rotating database credentials will require additional programming overhead to integrate with your database.