Researchers at the DEF CON 33 security conference shared that Amazon RDS successfully defended against their novel attack, despite the underlying open source database engine not releasing patches at the time. This is the result of years of consistent investment in security and isolation, enabling customers to focus on their applications instead of managing databases. We dive deep into the engineering and layered security architecture for Amazon Aurora, examining how multiple complementary layers including encryption, network controls, granular permissions, AWS IAM, active defense, and Amazon GuardDuty work together to protect customers' data from the infrastructure through the application interface.

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