Connecting to your DB instance using IAM authentication and the AWS SDK for Go

You can connect to an RDS for MariaDB, MySQL, or PostgreSQL DB instance with the AWS SDK for Go as described following.

Prerequisites

The following are prerequisites for connecting to your DB instance using IAM authentication:

Examples

To run these code examples, you need the AWS SDK for Go, found on the AWS site.

Modify the values of the following variables as needed:

In addition, make sure the imported libraries in the sample code exist on your system.

Connecting using IAM authentication and the AWS SDK for Go V2

You can connect to a DB instance using IAM authentication and the AWS SDK for Go V2.

The following code examples show how to generate an authentication token, and then use it to connect to a DB instance.

This code connects to a MariaDB or MySQL DB instance.

package main
                
import (
     "context"
     "database/sql"
     "fmt"

     "github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/config"
     "github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/feature/rds/auth"
     _ "github.com/go-sql-driver/mysql"
)

func main() {

     var dbName string = "DatabaseName"
     var dbUser string = "DatabaseUser"
     var dbHost string = "mysqldb.123456789012.us-east-1.rds.amazonaws.com"
     var dbPort int = 3306
     var dbEndpoint string = fmt.Sprintf("%s:%d", dbHost, dbPort)
     var region string = "us-east-1"

    cfg, err := config.LoadDefaultConfig(context.TODO())
    if err != nil {
    	panic("configuration error: " + err.Error())
    }

    authenticationToken, err := auth.BuildAuthToken(
    	context.TODO(), dbEndpoint, region, dbUser, cfg.Credentials)
    if err != nil {
	    panic("failed to create authentication token: " + err.Error())
    }

    dsn := fmt.Sprintf("%s:%s@tcp(%s)/%s?tls=true&allowCleartextPasswords=true",
        dbUser, authenticationToken, dbEndpoint, dbName,
    )

    db, err := sql.Open("mysql", dsn)
    if err != nil {
        panic(err)
    }

    err = db.Ping()
    if err != nil {
        panic(err)
    }
}

This code connects to a PostgreSQL DB instance.

package main

import (
     "context"
     "database/sql"
     "fmt"

     "github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/config"
     "github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/feature/rds/auth"
     _ "github.com/lib/pq"
)

func main() {

     var dbName string = "DatabaseName"
     var dbUser string = "DatabaseUser"
     var dbHost string = "postgresmydb.123456789012.us-east-1.rds.amazonaws.com"
     var dbPort int = 5432
     var dbEndpoint string = fmt.Sprintf("%s:%d", dbHost, dbPort)
     var region string = "us-east-1"

    cfg, err := config.LoadDefaultConfig(context.TODO())
    if err != nil {
    	panic("configuration error: " + err.Error())
    }

    authenticationToken, err := auth.BuildAuthToken(
    	context.TODO(), dbEndpoint, region, dbUser, cfg.Credentials)
    if err != nil {
	    panic("failed to create authentication token: " + err.Error())
    }

    dsn := fmt.Sprintf("host=%s port=%d user=%s password=%s dbname=%s",
        dbHost, dbPort, dbUser, authenticationToken, dbName,
    )

    db, err := sql.Open("postgres", dsn)
    if err != nil {
        panic(err)
    }

    err = db.Ping()
    if err != nil {
        panic(err)
    }
}

If you want to connect to a DB instance through a proxy, see Connecting to a proxy using IAM authentication.

Connecting using IAM authentication and the AWS SDK for Go V1.

You can connect to a DB instance using IAM authentication and the AWS SDK for Go V1

The following code examples show how to generate an authentication token, and then use it to connect to a DB instance.

This code connects to a MariaDB or MySQL DB instance.

package main
         
import (
    "database/sql"
    "fmt"
    "log"

    "github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/aws/credentials"
    "github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/service/rds/rdsutils"
    _ "github.com/go-sql-driver/mysql"
)

func main() {
    dbName := "app"
    dbUser := "jane_doe"
    dbHost := "mysqldb.123456789012.us-east-1.rds.amazonaws.com"
    dbPort := 3306
    dbEndpoint := fmt.Sprintf("%s:%d", dbHost, dbPort)
    region := "us-east-1"

    creds := credentials.NewEnvCredentials()
    authToken, err := rdsutils.BuildAuthToken(dbEndpoint, region, dbUser, creds)
    if err != nil {
        panic(err)
    }

    dsn := fmt.Sprintf("%s:%s@tcp(%s)/%s?tls=true&allowCleartextPasswords=true",
        dbUser, authToken, dbEndpoint, dbName,
    )

    db, err := sql.Open("mysql", dsn)
    if err != nil {
        panic(err)
    }

    err = db.Ping()
    if err != nil {
        panic(err)
    }
}

This code connects to a PostgreSQL DB instance.

package main

import (
	"database/sql"
	"fmt"

	"github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/aws/credentials"
	"github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/service/rds/rdsutils"
	_ "github.com/lib/pq"
)

func main() {
    dbName := "app"
    dbUser := "jane_doe"
    dbHost := "postgresmydb.123456789012.us-east-1.rds.amazonaws.com"
    dbPort := 5432
    dbEndpoint := fmt.Sprintf("%s:%d", dbHost, dbPort)
    region := "us-east-1"

    creds := credentials.NewEnvCredentials()
    authToken, err := rdsutils.BuildAuthToken(dbEndpoint, region, dbUser, creds)
    if err != nil {
        panic(err)
    }

    dsn := fmt.Sprintf("host=%s port=%d user=%s password=%s dbname=%s",
        dbHost, dbPort, dbUser, authToken, dbName,
    )

    db, err := sql.Open("postgres", dsn)
    if err != nil {
        panic(err)
    }

    err = db.Ping()
    if err != nil {
        panic(err)
    }
}

If you want to connect to a DB instance through a proxy, see Connecting to a proxy using IAM authentication.