Amazon RDS for Oracle Now Supports Kerberos Authentication with Self-Managed Active Directory
AWS, Thursday, November 5th, 2026
Amazon RDS for Oracle instances can now join self-managed Active Directory domains directly for Kerberos authentication.
Amazon RDS for Oracle now lets customers join DB instances directly to a self-managed Microsoft Active Directory domain running on premises, on Amazon EC2, or with another cloud provider, so AD users can authenticate with Kerberos.
Previously, this required deploying AWS Managed Microsoft AD and establishing a trust with the self-managed domain.
The setup can be done through the AWS Management Console, CLI, or SDK at no additional charge.
The capability is available in all commercial AWS Regions where RDS for Oracle is offered.