One IAM Role per EKS Cluster: RDS IAM Auth per Namespace with Pod Identity Session Tags
If you are running the same application for many tenants in Kubernetes, most likely you deploy a separate copy of it for each tenant, in its own namespace. In this post I call each copy an app. All apps run the same code and need the same access. The only difference is the name: the database user, the S3 prefix, the parameter path and so on. Every app needs its own RDS user and password. It is fine when you have up to 10 apps. If you have more, you need a procedure to rotate the passwords, and managing all of that is overcomplicated. ...
