Auto Discover AWS RDS Instances

Apono’s Auto Discovery feature identifies tagged AWS RDS instances, including MySQL and PostgreSQL. Rather than integrating each instance individually, you can integrate selected databases and their resources at once during your AWS Account or Organization setup.

Prerequisites

Enable Auto Discovery

Follow these steps to enable Auto Discovery:

1. In your AWS RDS database instance, create a user for the Apono connector. As part of this step, you will also create a secret.

2. based on the authentication method you selected in the previous step. In the tables below, the values shown in italics are the exact text you should enter when adding these tags.

1. In the Apono UI, on the tab, click AWS. The Connect Integrations Group page appears.

2. Under Discovery, click Amazon Account or Amazon Organization.

3. Under Connect Sub Integration, select Database, Table, and Role to control the granularity of discovery in each discovered instance.

After connecting your AWS Account or AWS Organization to Apono, you will be redirected to the Connected tab to view your integrations. The new AWS integration, along with sub-integrations for each RDS instance, initialize during the first data fetch. The integration becomes Active once the process completes.

Now that you have completed this integration, you can that grant permission to your AWS RDS resources.

Troubleshooting

If RDS instances appear with errors on your Integrations page, follow these steps:

1. Check Tags: Verify all required tags are present and correctly formatted.

2. Connector Permissions: Ensure the Apono connector has necessary permissions to read tags and access secrets.

3. Network connectivity: Ensure each RDS instance is accessible by an Apono connector within the same network.