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Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports Kerberos authentication with self-managed Active Directory

Published
November 5, 2026
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/11/rds-oracle-kerberos-self-managed-ad/

Amazon RDS for Oracle

Amazon RDS for Oracle now allows customers to join their RDS for Oracle DB instances directly to their self-managed Microsoft Active Directory (AD) domain. Users in your AD domain can authenticate to RDS for Oracle DB instances using Kerberos.

Previously, customers were required to deploy AWS Managed Microsoft AD and establish trust between AWS managed domain and self-managed domain. Now, customers can join their existing self-managed AD directly to authenticate and authorize users without setting up an additional directory or trust relationship.

What to do

  • Set up using the AWS Management Console, AWS CLI, or AWS SDK.

Kerberos authentication with self-managed Active Directory in Amazon RDS for Oracle is available in all commercial AWS Regions where Amazon RDS for Oracle is available.

Source: AWS release notes




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