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Asked: 2026-05-23T07:28:17+00:00

Amazon RDS documentation (http://aws.amazon.com/rds/faqs/#53) specifies that Amazon RDS generates an SSL certificate for each

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Amazon RDS documentation (http://aws.amazon.com/rds/faqs/#53) specifies that “Amazon RDS generates an SSL certificate for each [MySQL] DB Instance”. I haven’t been able to find any documentation on how to find the certificates and the certificates are nowhere to be found in the management console.

Where are the certificates?

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  1. Editorial Team

    I found the solution here: https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=62110.

    curl -O https://s3.amazonaws.com/rds-downloads/mysql-ssl-ca-cert.pem

    • Connect to mysql:
    mysql -uusername -p --host=host --ssl-ca=mysql-ssl-ca-cert.pem
    • Check that your connection is really encrypted:
    mysql> SHOW STATUS LIKE 'Ssl_cipher';

    +---------------+------------+
| Variable_name | Value      |
+---------------+------------+
| Ssl_cipher    | AES256-SHA |
+---------------+------------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)
    • Optionally force SSL for a specific user to connect to MySQL

    mysql> ALTER USER 'username'@'host|%' REQUIRE SSL

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