Re: Would PostgreSQL 16 native transparent data encryption support database level encryption?

[Christophe Pettus]

> On May 22, 2023, at 13:06, Adrian Klaver <adrian.kla...@aklaver.com> wrote:
> As I understand TDE whether you can get to the files is not really the point. 
> It is that someone/thing can and if they do the files are encrypted. Pretty 
> sure RDS is not magical enough to have no access from any source to the file 
> system.

That is true.  (One of the reasons that TDE in cloud hosting is generally a 
regulatory issue, not really a technical one.)  That being said, RDS does allow 
the underlying EBS volume to be encrypted, and you can do "bring your own key" 
using their keystores.