Your team is working on an application that will connect to a MySQL RDS Instance.The security mandate is that the connection to the database from the application should be encrypted. How can you accomplish this?

Answer options:

A.By using Access Keys assigned to an IAM user
B.By using Private Key pairs
C.By using SSL
D.By using KMS Keys

Answer – C
The AWS Documentation mentions the following.
Option A is incorrect since this is used for programmatic access for a user.
Option B is incorrect since this is used for connection to an EC2 Instance.
Option D is incorrect since it is normally used for encrypting data at rest or before data is sent in transit.
For more information on using RDS with SSL, please refer to the below URL-
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/UsingWithRDS.SSL.html