Connect an AWS account to PD AWS PostgreSQL in Blesta

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Connect an AWS account to PD AWS PostgreSQL in Blesta

Connect the AWS account that will hold the databases you sell through PD AWS PostgreSQL. The module can use Amazon RDS or Lightsail managed databases for PostgreSQL. Choose the backing that matches your offering. Your hosting business’s AWS access key is separate from the database login given to a customer.

Prepare the AWS connection

Install PD Modules, connect the account holding your licence, then install PD AWS PostgreSQL from its Store. Ask the AWS administrator for a dedicated IAM user access key with the permissions needed for the database operations you intend to offer. Keep the key and secret out of customer applications, tickets and screenshots.

Review RDS management, CloudWatch reads and EC2 security-group permissions separately. For RDS, the module creates a dedicated firewall group during provisioning: permission to create that group is needed before the first RDS database can be created. The AmazonRDSFullAccess policy includes RDS operations and CloudWatch reads but does not grant security-group creation or ingress changes. The AWS administrator must review those additional RDS actions too. Lightsail-backed plans need separate Lightsail database permissions; the RDS policy does not cover them.

Save the account

Open Settings → Company → Modules, find PD AWS PostgreSQL under Installed and choose Manage. Add an account with a recognisable name, Access Key ID and Secret Access Key, then save. A blank secret when editing an unchanged account retains its stored value. Select the intended account on the package.

Open PD Modules → PD AWS PostgreSQL → Settings → Test Connection. Read what the module-panel test checks before treating a successful result as approval for provisioning.

Confirm the intended use

Check the package’s account association, region and database defaults before accepting orders. Real database creation can incur AWS charges. When rotating credentials, verify the intended dependent operations before retiring the old pair; a passing read test alone does not establish that every write is authorised.

See the PD AWS PostgreSQL Blesta guide for related tasks, or explore PD AWS PostgreSQL.

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