aws-redis-iam-auth-golang

Using IAM authentication for Redis on AWS

How to securely connect your Go applications to Amazon MemoryDB (or ElastiCache) for Redis using IAM

Amazon MemoryDB has supported username/password based authentication using Access Control Lists since the very beginning. But it also supports IAM for authentication.

MemoryDB documentation has an example for a Java application with the Lettuce client. The process is similar for other languages, but you still need to implement it. This repository contains an example for a Go application with the widely used go-redis client.

For a deep dive, check out this blog post.

License

This library is licensed under the MIT-0 License. See the LICENSE file.