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Severity: MediumHigh

Description: This control ensures that IAM DB Authentication is enabled for RDS DB Instances. When using IAM Database Authentication, instead of passwords, authentication tokens are issued and used for logging in. This provides central management of users and a better security model for authentication. Any traffic to and from the database is encrypted using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) .

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