How can I connect Google Data Studio to an AWS RDS Postgres instance?

Question

When I go to make a new data source in Data Studio, I'm prompted to enter the client/server certificates to make a secure connection. Where can I get this client certificate and key? How can I allow Google Data Studio to connect to my RDS instance?

Answer 1

Do the following:

1. Add the Google IP addresses to your RDS security group inbound rule list.

2. Generate a self-signed cert. This answer provides instructions.

openssl req -newkey rsa:2048 -nodes -keyout client.key -x509 -days 365 -out client.crt

2. Get the correct server PEM file for your region from AWS

3. Add your database user information to the form and attach your client.crt , client.key and AWS pem files.