Searching for equivalent to Boto3's RDS.Client.generate_db_auth_token

[robjtede]

We're wanting to use IRSA authentication for more resources. We've successfully done so for S3 using aws-sdk-s3 but we're now looking at databases which is a more complex interaction because aws-sdk-rds is not the DB client per-se.

Section 9 of this guide shows use of Boto3's generate_db_auth_token method to just obtain a password which can be used with any DB client.

I can't see any equivalent in aws-sdk-rds unless I've missed a more fundamental concept as to the nature of acceptable auth-tokens-as-passwords and this is already possible via a different crate.

[ysaito1001]

Hi @robjtede, thank you for asking the question on generate_db_auth_token. We acknowledge that similar requests have been asked in the past (you can see a workaround in this issue, for instance).

The workaround in the above issue requires additional code; The reason generate_db_auth_token is not part of the aws-sdk-rds crate is that the function is not a Smithy-modeled operation, but a rather library function that needs to be hand-written (as opposed to code-generated by smithy-rs). For such a feature, you will see the high-level-library label within this repository.

Essentially, if labeled as high-level-library, it means we need to figure out how to house those high-level libraries, separately from code-generated SDKs.