In production environments, it’s considered a best practice to connect Artifactory to a remote database that can withstand high-traffic loads. When using the Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), you have the option to encrypt your database for increased protection against malicious parties. Indeed, some organizations require RDS-level encryption as a strict policy.
If you’d like to encrypt a previously unencrypted RDS PostgreSQL database, which is already being used by Artifactory, do the following: