This article is about how you can handle AWS RDS secrets rotation without restarting your Spring Boot application.

This article is about how you can handle AWS RDS secrets rotation without restarting your Spring Boot application.

I had this problem wherein I had to update my database connection whenever the database password was updated for my AWS RDS instance. This can be because of a monthly password rotation policy or maybe the database credentials got compromised and you want all your running applications to keep running even when the database password is changed.

To solve this kind of problem, AWS provides a library that will handle this updating of the database connection without even restarting your Spring Boot application.

AWS has an open-source library called AWS Secrets Manager JDBC, that handles database connections while your application is running and talking to the RDS instance.

Let’s see how this works.

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