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PMM-15389

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Why?

Long-lived AWS access keys are currently required to operate PMM in a multi-account AWS architecture. The use of access keys, rather than STS credentials assumed via another role, is broadly considered to deviate from AWS best practice:

As a best practice, use temporary security credentials (such as IAM roles) instead of creating long-term credentials like access keys. Before creating access keys, review the alternatives to long-term access keys.

What?

This PR introduces the ability for Percona components to assume an IAM role using ambient credentials. This functionality is already supported by RDS exporter.

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Signed-off-by: Fergal Kearns <fergal.kearns@deliveroo.co.uk>
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The previous lookup filtered on aws_options->>'aws_access_key', which holds
ciphertext, so static-key groups never matched. Groups with no access key
skipped the filter entirely and matched every RDS exporter on the pmm-agent,
letting one group's status overwrite unrelated exporters.

Verified against a live PostgreSQL (testdb.Open) before this fix: the
static-key lookup returned an empty agent list (encrypted column never
equals the plaintext filter), and the ambient lookup returned both the
ambient and the static-key agent's IDs (empty filter matched every RDS
exporter on the pmm-agent). Both new subtests pass after this change.

Signed-off-by: Fergal Kearns <fergal.kearns@deliveroo.co.uk>
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Signed-off-by: Fergal Kearns <fergal.kearns@deliveroo.co.uk>
Correct proto comments on aws_role_arn fields to name the actor that
actually assumes the role: pmm-agent for AddRDSServiceParams, RDSExporter,
AddRDSExporterParams, ChangeRDSExporterParams, and UniversalAgent.
DiscoverRDSRequest correctly names PMM Server and is left unchanged.

Includes regenerated .pb.go, swagger, and json client output from
make prepare-pr.

Signed-off-by: Fergal Kearns <fergal.kearns@deliveroo.co.uk>
Attribute discovery to PMM Server and adding/scraping to the pmm-agent
host, consistent with the API comment fixes. Show the trust policy's
Principal.AWS as an array so the cross-host case (trusting both
identities) is directly copy-pasteable.

Signed-off-by: Fergal Kearns <fergal.kearns@deliveroo.co.uk>
Per-region discovery errors are only logged, so a bad ARN or a missing
sts:AssumeRole trust entry returned an empty list with HTTP 200. Assume
the role once eagerly, inside the discovery timeout, and return
FailedPrecondition when it fails.

Derive the STS region from the partition that owns the ARN rather than
from the union of configured partitions: STS is partition-scoped, so an
aws-cn role must not have its AssumeRole sent to the aws partition, even
when the ambient region says otherwise.

Signed-off-by: Fergal Kearns <fergal.kearns@deliveroo.co.uk>
Pin the PGV pattern rejection to a 400 InvalidArgument with the field
that failed, so the assertion cannot pass on a 500. Move AWSOptions.Validate
next to the other AWSOptions methods in agent_model.go.

Signed-off-by: Fergal Kearns <fergal.kearns@deliveroo.co.uk>
STS is partition-scoped, and the region to call it in is already known at
the point of use: the region the fan-out is about to scan. Assume the role
there rather than deriving a region from the ARN's partition, which made
the STS region a second, independent notion of region alongside the one
discovery already had.

Record the assumption failure separately from the group error. Every
region fails identically when a role cannot be assumed, errgroup keeps
only whichever error arrived first -- in practice a context deadline, since
29 doomed STS attempts outlast the discovery budget -- and once the RDS
call wraps the failure its outer error names RDS, not STS. Resolving the
credentials in the goroutine and recording the first failure keeps the
reported cause deterministic.

Signed-off-by: Fergal Kearns <fergal.kearns@deliveroo.co.uk>
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Walkthrough

The change adds AWS IAM role ARN support to RDS exporter and management APIs, credential handling, RDS discovery, agent configuration, and CLI commands. It validates role ARN formats and rejects configurations that combine a role ARN with static AWS keys. Role ARNs are included in API responses, persisted exporter options, and agent configuration. RDS discovery selects an STS region from the ARN partition and retrieves assumed credentials before scanning.

Changes

AWS role ARN API contracts

Layer / File(s) Summary
API fields and validation
api/inventory/v1/..., api/management/v1/...
Inventory and management APIs now expose aws_role_arn. Non-empty values must match the AWS IAM role ARN pattern.
Generated JSON and Swagger schemas
api/inventory/v1/json/..., api/management/v1/json/..., api/swagger/...
Client models and public schemas serialize aws_role_arn and document ambient credentials and credential exclusivity.

Credential model and agent runtime

Layer / File(s) Summary
Credential storage and identity
managed/models/agent_model.go, managed/models/agent_helpers.go, go.mod
AWS options store role ARNs, reject mixed credential types, and generate deterministic role identity keys. Agent creation and updates validate options before persistence.
Exporter configuration and grouping
managed/services/agents/...
RDS exporter configuration includes the role ARN. Roster lookup and exporter grouping use computed credential identity keys for static keys, roles, and ambient credentials.
Service mappings
managed/services/converters.go, managed/services/inventory/agents.go, managed/services/management/agent.go
Role ARNs map between API models, stored agent options, and management responses.

RDS role assumption

Layer / File(s) Summary
Discovery and service creation
managed/services/management/rds.go, api-tests/management/rds_test.go
RDS discovery validates credential settings, derives the STS region from the ARN partition, assumes the role before scanning regions, and returns FailedPrecondition when assumption fails. RDS service creation persists the role ARN.
Partition handling tests
managed/services/management/rds_test.go
Tests cover AWS, China, GovCloud, and ISO STS regions, plus malformed and unsupported ARNs.

CLI and API coverage

Layer / File(s) Summary
RDS exporter CLI commands
admin/commands/inventory/*rds_exporter.go, admin/commands/inventory/*rds_exporter_test.go
Add and change commands accept, display, update, and clear AWS role ARNs. Tests verify parsing, request payloads, and command output.
Inventory API tests
api-tests/inventory/agents_rds_exporter_test.go
Tests verify role ARN persistence, rejection of malformed ARNs, and rejection of role ARNs combined with static credentials.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 9039c

Role-based discovery can give an incorrect result with multiple AWS partitions configured and cannot use an aws-iso-b role for a listed region. Resolve or explicitly accept those limitations before merging.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 9039c

IAM roles can reduce reliance on long-lived keys, but this change makes the permissions of the server and each selected agent important security boundaries. The available evidence does not establish how broadly those identities can assume roles or whether role changes always retire prior exporter state.

Retained concerns

  • Medium · security · inferred: A discovery caller selects the role assumed with the server's ambient AWS identity. The inspected path has no account or role authorization check beyond ARN validation; effective access depends on endpoint authorization and AWS policies that were not available for review.
  • Medium · reliability · inferred: Changing an exporter's role changes its credential-group identity, but a state refresh adds the new group without clearing old roster entries. A delayed callback can still resolve an old group to exporter IDs; whether agent-side state replacement prevents prolonged misattribution is unresolved.
Security review details

Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The maximum AWS scope of server-side discovery is the set of roles the server identity can assume and the RDS resources those roles can read, potentially across accounts. That scope cannot be quantified without deployed IAM and trust policies.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • inferred — A caller able to invoke discovery can submit a syntactically valid role ARN for an STS assumption attempt using server credentials. No unauthorized assumption or data access is established: PMM endpoint authorization and AWS policy enforcement remain unverified, and failed assumptions stop the scan.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The server crosses from a caller-supplied ARN and its ambient AWS identity to temporary role credentials. Mutual-exclusion and ARN checks precede that transition; AWS rejects an unsuccessful AssumeRole attempt before RDS calls.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • inferred — A cached old group can still be resolved when a status callback arrives after a role change, potentially obscuring which credential identity is running. Successful agent-side replacement and recovery after interrupted SetState delivery were not established.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Define the authorized role and account scope for discovery separately from exporter execution, and verify that endpoint permissions and deployed IAM and trust policies enforce those intended scopes.
  • proposed — Verify role-switch behavior across failed delivery, delayed callbacks, reconnect, and agent recovery; invalidate obsolete group membership when replacement is confirmed.
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Description check ⚠️ Warning The description provides the ticket, feature build, motivation, and implementation scope. However, this PR changes API endpoints and schemas, so the required API documentation section is missing. Add the template section for API documentation and indicate whether the relevant API documentation was updated: "- [ ] API Docs updated" or "- [x] API Docs updated".
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly summarizes the main change: support for assumed IAM roles in AWS RDS.
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In `@api-tests/inventory/agents_rds_exporter_test.go`:
- Around line 534-561: Add t.Cleanup handlers to the WithRoleARN test and the
rejected-request and malformed-ARN test cases in
api-tests/inventory/agents_rds_exporter_test.go at lines 534-561, 563-588, and
590-613. Clean up each test’s created RDS exporter where applicable, PMM agent,
RDS node, and generic node using the existing resource-removal helpers, ensuring
cleanup runs for parallel tests and covers all resources created by each case.

Apply the same fix in `@api-tests/management/rds_test.go` around lines 274 - 283:
Register cleanup for every created service and exporter agent before assertions.

In `@documentation/docs/install-pmm/install-pmm-client/connect-database/aws.md`:
- Around line 162-176: Update the AWS documentation examples around the shown
IAM policy and the additional referenced blocks to use four-space-indented code
blocks instead of fenced Markdown code blocks, preserving their JSON content and
formatting.

In `@managed/services/agents/roster.go`:
- Around line 125-126: Update the error return in the RDS exporter fallback
lookup to wrap the existing error with descriptive context that identifies the
operation and includes pmmAgentID, using the repository’s standard wrapped-error
pattern while preserving the original error.

In `@managed/services/management/rds.go`:
- Around line 200-206: Filter regions to the AWS partition represented by
req.AwsRoleArn before the concurrent scan loop creates STS providers. Update the
region-selection flow around assumeRoleProvider so role-based scans only process
regions in that partition, while preserving the existing behavior for requests
without a role ARN.
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Comment on lines +534 to +561
t.Run("WithRoleARN", func(t *testing.T) {
t.Parallel()

const roleARN = "arn:aws:iam::123456789012:role/pmm-monitoring"

genericNodeID := pmmapitests.AddGenericNode(t, pmmapitests.TestString(t, "")).NodeID
nodeID := pmmapitests.AddRemoteRDSNode(t, pmmapitests.TestString(t, "Remote node for role ARN")).NodeID
pmmAgentID := pmmapitests.AddPMMAgent(t, genericNodeID).AgentID

rdsExporter := pmmapitests.AddAgent(t, agents.AddAgentBody{
RDSExporter: &agents.AddAgentParamsBodyRDSExporter{
NodeID: nodeID,
PMMAgentID: pmmAgentID,
AWSRoleArn: roleARN,
SkipConnectionCheck: true,
},
})
agentID := rdsExporter.RDSExporter.AgentID

assert.Equal(t, roleARN, rdsExporter.RDSExporter.AWSRoleArn)

getAgentRes, err := client.Default.AgentsService.GetAgent(&agents.GetAgentParams{
AgentID: agentID,
Context: pmmapitests.Context,
})
require.NoError(t, err)
assert.Equal(t, roleARN, getAgentRes.Payload.RDSExporter.AWSRoleArn)
})

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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Clean up test-created PMM resources. These integration tests create persistent resources without registering t.Cleanup(), so a fatal assertion can leave state that contaminates later tests. Register cleanup immediately for every created exporter agent, PMM agent, RDS node, generic node, and service, including the rejected and malformed-ARN cases. The same requirement applies to the management RDS test.

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  • api-tests/management/rds_test.go#L274-L283
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In `@api-tests/inventory/agents_rds_exporter_test.go` around lines 534 - 561, Add
t.Cleanup handlers to the WithRoleARN test and the rejected-request and
malformed-ARN test cases in api-tests/inventory/agents_rds_exporter_test.go at
lines 534-561, 563-588, and 590-613. Clean up each test’s created RDS exporter
where applicable, PMM agent, RDS node, and generic node using the existing
resource-removal helpers, ensuring cleanup runs for parallel tests and covers
all resources created by each case.

Apply the same fix in `@api-tests/management/rds_test.go` around lines 274 - 283:
Register cleanup for every created service and exporter agent before assertions.

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Comment on lines +162 to +176
```json
{
"Version": "2012-10-17",
"Statement": [{
"Effect": "Allow",
"Principal": {
"AWS": [
"arn:aws:iam::<pmm-account-id>:role/<pmm-server-role>",
"arn:aws:iam::<pmm-account-id>:role/<pmm-agent-host-role>"
]
},
"Action": "sts:AssumeRole"
}]
}
```

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Use the configured Markdown code-block style.

These fenced code blocks violate MD046. Convert them to indented code blocks so the documentation lint result is clean.

Also applies to: 180-189, 193-197

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In `@documentation/docs/install-pmm/install-pmm-client/connect-database/aws.md`
around lines 162 - 176, Update the AWS documentation examples around the shown
IAM policy and the additional referenced blocks to use four-space-indented code
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if err != nil {
return nil, err

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Wrap the RDS exporter lookup error with operation context.

FindAgents can return a database or decryption error without identifying this fallback lookup or the PMM agent. Add the lookup operation and pmmAgentID before returning the error.

Proposed fix
 if err != nil {
-	return nil, err
+	return nil, fmt.Errorf("find RDS exporters for PMM agent %q: %w", pmmAgentID, err)
 }

Based on learnings, wrap lower-level errors that lack resource or operation context. As per coding guidelines, “Wrap errors with context: fmt.Errorf("descriptive context: %w", err).”

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for _, region := range regions {
wg.Go(func() error {
regInstances, err := discoverRDSRegion(ctx, cfg, region)
regCfg := cfg
if req.AwsRoleArn != "" {
// STS is partition-scoped, so the role is assumed in the region being scanned.
regCfg.Region = region
regCfg.Credentials = assumeRoleProvider(regCfg, req.AwsRoleArn)

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Limit role assumption to the role ARN partition.

regions can include several AWS partitions. A role ARN belongs to one partition, but this loop attempts it in every configured partition.

A role can succeed in its own partition and fail in another partition. The first failure can then be reported as an assumption failure when no RDS instance is found. Filter the scan regions by the role ARN partition before creating STS providers.

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In `@managed/services/management/rds.go` around lines 200 - 206, Filter regions to
the AWS partition represented by req.AwsRoleArn before the concurrent scan loop
creates STS providers. Update the region-selection flow around
assumeRoleProvider so role-based scans only process regions in that partition,
while preserving the existing behavior for requests without a role ARN.

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Pull request overview

Adds ambient-credential IAM role assumption for AWS RDS discovery and monitoring.

Changes:

  • Adds aws_role_arn across management and inventory APIs.
  • Persists, validates, groups, and forwards role-based RDS configurations.
  • Adds CLI support, documentation, and tests.

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File Description
managed/services/management/rds.go Adds STS role assumption and persistence.
managed/services/management/rds_test.go Tests role provider creation.
managed/services/management/agent.go Exposes role ARN in agent responses.
managed/services/inventory/agents.go Handles role ARN for RDS agents.
managed/services/converters.go Converts stored role ARN to API output.
managed/services/agents/state.go Groups exporters by credential identity.
managed/services/agents/state_test.go Tests credential-based grouping.
managed/services/agents/roster.go Resolves grouped RDS exporters.
managed/services/agents/roster_test.go Tests roster fallback behavior.
managed/services/agents/rds.go Writes role ARN to exporter configuration.
managed/services/agents/rds_test.go Tests generated role configuration.
managed/models/agent_model.go Models, validates, and identifies roles.
managed/models/agent_model_test.go Tests AWS option behavior.
managed/models/agent_helpers.go Persists and validates role changes.
go.mod Promotes the AWS STS dependency.
documentation/docs/install-pmm/install-pmm-client/connect-database/aws.md Documents assumed-role setup.
api/swagger/swagger.json Regenerates the public API schema.
api/swagger/swagger-dev.json Regenerates the development API schema.
api/management/v1/rds.proto Adds management role ARN fields.
api/management/v1/rds.pb.validate.go Generates management validation.
api/management/v1/rds.pb.go Generates management protobuf types.
api/management/v1/json/v1.json Regenerates management JSON schema.
api/management/v1/json/client/management_service/list_services_responses.go Exposes role ARN in service listings.
api/management/v1/json/client/management_service/list_agents_responses.go Exposes role ARN in agent listings.
api/management/v1/json/client/management_service/discover_rds_responses.go Adds role ARN to discovery requests.
api/management/v1/json/client/management_service/add_service_responses.go Adds role ARN to RDS service clients.
api/management/v1/agent.proto Adds role ARN to universal agents.
api/management/v1/agent.pb.validate.go Regenerates agent validation.
api/management/v1/agent.pb.go Regenerates agent protobuf types.
api/inventory/v1/json/v1.json Regenerates inventory JSON schema.
api/inventory/v1/json/client/agents_service/list_agents_responses.go Adds role ARN to list responses.
api/inventory/v1/json/client/agents_service/get_agent_responses.go Adds role ARN to get responses.
api/inventory/v1/json/client/agents_service/change_agent_responses.go Adds role ARN to change clients.
api/inventory/v1/json/client/agents_service/add_agent_responses.go Adds role ARN to add clients.
api/inventory/v1/agents.proto Defines inventory role ARN fields.
api/inventory/v1/agents.pb.validate.go Generates inventory validation.
api/inventory/v1/agents.pb.go Generates inventory protobuf types.
api-tests/management/rds_test.go Adds management API coverage.
api-tests/inventory/agents_rds_exporter_test.go Adds inventory API coverage.
admin/commands/inventory/change_agent_rds_exporter.go Adds role update and clearing flags.
admin/commands/inventory/change_agent_rds_exporter_test.go Tests role update CLI behavior.
admin/commands/inventory/add_agent_rds_exporter.go Adds role ARN when creating exporters.
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if assumeErr != nil {
return res, status.Errorf(codes.FailedPrecondition, "Failed to assume role %s: %s.", req.AwsRoleArn, assumeErr)
Comment on lines +142 to +143
- Discovering RDS instances through the API or `pmm-admin` runs on **PMM Server**, so PMM
Server's ambient identity assumes the role.
Instance: node.InstanceID,
AWSAccessKey: exporter.AWSOptions.AWSAccessKey,
AWSSecretKey: exporter.AWSOptions.AWSSecretKey,
AWSRoleArn: exporter.AWSOptions.AWSRoleARN,

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minimum supported pmm-agent version that supports assumed roles is 3.4.0-0

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Add direct tests for AWSRoleARN.

Add coverage for flag parsing, RunCmd request construction, and result formatting in add_agent_rds_exporter_test.go. The supplied change-command test cannot verify that AddAgentRDSExporterCommand sends AWSRoleArn or displays it.

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Instance: node.InstanceID,
AWSAccessKey: exporter.AWSOptions.AWSAccessKey,
AWSSecretKey: exporter.AWSOptions.AWSSecretKey,
AWSRoleArn: exporter.AWSOptions.AWSRoleARN,

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minimum supported pmm-agent version that supports assumed roles is 3.4.0-0

The `AmazonRDSforPMMPolicy` is now added to your IAM user.

![!image](../../../images/aws.iam.add-permissions.png)

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Folks, the docs cannot be merged with this PR. We are merging PRs well before the release which is why we don't want them to show up before PMM is released.

May I ask you to extract them to a separate PR while restoring the .md files from main, please?

I know, it's inconvenient, but that's what it is :(

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No problem @ademidoff - I'll pull these into their own PR.

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Build one assumed-role credentials provider before the region scan,
using the default STS region for the role ARN's partition, instead
of one provider per scanned region. Resolve it once up front, so a
role that cannot be assumed is reported immediately without
scanning any region.

This also removes the false assumption failure a role could trigger
when the configured partitions cover regions the role does not
belong to: those regions now just fail their normal RDS call
instead of a misreported role-assumption error.

Signed-off-by: Fergal Kearns <fergal.kearns@deliveroo.co.uk>
Docs cannot merge ahead of the PMM release they describe, so pull
the assumed-role documentation out of this PR and restore aws.md to
its main content. The docs move to a separate PR.

Signed-off-by: Fergal Kearns <fergal.kearns@deliveroo.co.uk>

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4nte pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 11, 2026
Adopt the assumed-role implementation from #5804 (by Fergal
Kearns) onto current main, squashed into one commit. PMM can assume an
AWS IAM role using its own ambient credentials instead of long-lived
access keys, for both RDS discovery (on PMM Server) and rds_exporter
scraping (on the pmm-agent host).

Adds aws_role_arn across the RDS API surface, mutually exclusive with the
access/secret key; assumes the role once per partition during discovery;
groups rds_exporter processes by credential identity; and exposes
--aws-role-arn on the pmm-admin RDS commands. AWS SDK bumped to the
versions already on main, with service/sts promoted to a direct
dependency.

Docs are intentionally excluded; they land via #5838.
Known defects from the #5804 review are fixed in follow-up commits on
this branch.

Original PR: #5804

Signed-off-by: Ante Gulin <ante.gulin@percona.com>
4nte added a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 11, 2026
Fixes two defects in the DiscoverRDS assume-role path found reviewing
#5804.

The STS AssumeRole call ran on the raw request context, before the
awsDiscoverTimeout region-scan deadline was applied, and the HTTP client
had no timeout of its own. A slow or unreachable STS endpoint could hang
DiscoverRDS for minutes. The assume now runs under its own
awsDiscoverTimeout deadline and the HTTP client carries a matching
per-request ceiling.

The role ARN's partition was never checked against settings.AWSPartitions.
A role in a partition PMM is not configured to scan could assume
successfully and then fail every scanned region, or return nothing with no
error. The partition is now rejected up front with FailedPrecondition,
before any network call. stsRegionForRoleARN returns the partition for this
check.

Signed-off-by: Ante Gulin <ante.gulin@percona.com>
4nte pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 13, 2026
Adopt the assumed-role implementation from #5804 (by Fergal
Kearns) onto current main, squashed into one commit. PMM can assume an
AWS IAM role using its own ambient credentials instead of long-lived
access keys, for both RDS discovery (on PMM Server) and rds_exporter
scraping (on the pmm-agent host).

Adds aws_role_arn across the RDS API surface, mutually exclusive with the
access/secret key; assumes the role once per partition during discovery;
groups rds_exporter processes by credential identity; and exposes
--aws-role-arn on the pmm-admin RDS commands. AWS SDK bumped to the
versions already on main, with service/sts promoted to a direct
dependency.

Docs are intentionally excluded; they land via #5838.
Known defects from the #5804 review are fixed in follow-up commits on
this branch.

Original PR: #5804

Signed-off-by: Ante Gulin <ante.gulin@percona.com>
4nte added a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 13, 2026
Fixes two defects in the DiscoverRDS assume-role path found reviewing
#5804.

The STS AssumeRole call ran on the raw request context, before the
awsDiscoverTimeout region-scan deadline was applied, and the HTTP client
had no timeout of its own. A slow or unreachable STS endpoint could hang
DiscoverRDS for minutes. The assume now runs under its own
awsDiscoverTimeout deadline and the HTTP client carries a matching
per-request ceiling.

The role ARN's partition was never checked against settings.AWSPartitions.
A role in a partition PMM is not configured to scan could assume
successfully and then fail every scanned region, or return nothing with no
error. The partition is now rejected up front with FailedPrecondition,
before any network call. stsRegionForRoleARN returns the partition for this
check.

Signed-off-by: Ante Gulin <ante.gulin@percona.com>
4nte pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 13, 2026
Adopt the assumed-role implementation from #5804 (by Fergal
Kearns) onto current main, squashed into one commit. PMM can assume an
AWS IAM role using its own ambient credentials instead of long-lived
access keys, for both RDS discovery (on PMM Server) and rds_exporter
scraping (on the pmm-agent host).

Adds aws_role_arn across the RDS API surface, mutually exclusive with the
access/secret key; assumes the role once per partition during discovery;
groups rds_exporter processes by credential identity; and exposes
--aws-role-arn on the pmm-admin RDS commands. AWS SDK bumped to the
versions already on main, with service/sts promoted to a direct
dependency.

Docs are intentionally excluded; they land via #5838.
Known defects from the #5804 review are fixed in follow-up commits on
this branch.

Original PR: #5804

Signed-off-by: Ante Gulin <ante.gulin@percona.com>
4nte added a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 13, 2026
Fixes two defects in the DiscoverRDS assume-role path found reviewing
#5804.

The STS AssumeRole call ran on the raw request context, before the
awsDiscoverTimeout region-scan deadline was applied, and the HTTP client
had no timeout of its own. A slow or unreachable STS endpoint could hang
DiscoverRDS for minutes. The assume now runs under its own
awsDiscoverTimeout deadline and the HTTP client carries a matching
per-request ceiling.

The role ARN's partition was never checked against settings.AWSPartitions.
A role in a partition PMM is not configured to scan could assume
successfully and then fail every scanned region, or return nothing with no
error. The partition is now rejected up front with FailedPrecondition,
before any network call. stsRegionForRoleARN returns the partition for this
check.

Signed-off-by: Ante Gulin <ante.gulin@percona.com>
4nte pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 14, 2026
Adopt the assumed-role implementation from #5804 (by Fergal
Kearns) onto current main, squashed into one commit. PMM can assume an
AWS IAM role using its own ambient credentials instead of long-lived
access keys, for both RDS discovery (on PMM Server) and rds_exporter
scraping (on the pmm-agent host).

Adds aws_role_arn across the RDS API surface, mutually exclusive with the
access/secret key; assumes the role once per partition during discovery;
groups rds_exporter processes by credential identity; and exposes
--aws-role-arn on the pmm-admin RDS commands. AWS SDK bumped to the
versions already on main, with service/sts promoted to a direct
dependency.

Docs are intentionally excluded; they land via #5838.
Known defects from the #5804 review are fixed in follow-up commits on
this branch.

Original PR: #5804

Signed-off-by: Ante Gulin <ante.gulin@percona.com>
4nte added a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 14, 2026
Fixes two defects in the DiscoverRDS assume-role path found reviewing
#5804.

The STS AssumeRole call ran on the raw request context, before the
awsDiscoverTimeout region-scan deadline was applied, and the HTTP client
had no timeout of its own. A slow or unreachable STS endpoint could hang
DiscoverRDS for minutes. The assume now runs under its own
awsDiscoverTimeout deadline and the HTTP client carries a matching
per-request ceiling.

The role ARN's partition was never checked against settings.AWSPartitions.
A role in a partition PMM is not configured to scan could assume
successfully and then fail every scanned region, or return nothing with no
error. The partition is now rejected up front with FailedPrecondition,
before any network call. stsRegionForRoleARN returns the partition for this
check.

Signed-off-by: Ante Gulin <ante.gulin@percona.com>
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* PMM-15389 Add instance_id to inventory RDS node API/CLI

AddRemoteRDSNodeParams had no instance_id field and
`pmm-admin inventory add node remote-rds` had no flag for it, so every
remote-RDS node created through the inventory path stored an empty
identifier. rds_exporter then received `instance: ""`, logged
"No scraper for <region>/, skipping." and collected nothing while the
agent reported AGENT_STATUS_RUNNING.

PMM-13157 split address from instance_id but wired the new field through
the management API only; the inventory API and CLI were never updated.

This adds instance_id to AddRemoteRDSNodeParams and to the CLI, and
refuses the broken state at source: an empty identifier is rejected at
node creation (InvalidArgument), and attaching an rds_exporter to a
remote_rds node that lacks one is rejected at agent creation
(FailedPrecondition), which also covers rows created before this fix.

The stale "DB instance identifier" comment on the address field is
corrected in both RemoteRDSNode and AddRemoteRDSNodeParams.

Signed-off-by: Ante Gulin <ante.gulin@percona.com>

* PMM-15389 Make --instance-id a required CLI flag

The help text already said it was required, but Kong accepted an omitted
value and sent an empty identifier the server then rejected. Enforce it
at parse time (CodeRabbit review on #5943).

Signed-off-by: Ante Gulin <ante.gulin@percona.com>

* PMM-15389 Assume IAM roles for AWS RDS monitoring

Adopt the assumed-role implementation from #5804 (by Fergal
Kearns) onto current main, squashed into one commit. PMM can assume an
AWS IAM role using its own ambient credentials instead of long-lived
access keys, for both RDS discovery (on PMM Server) and rds_exporter
scraping (on the pmm-agent host).

Adds aws_role_arn across the RDS API surface, mutually exclusive with the
access/secret key; assumes the role once per partition during discovery;
groups rds_exporter processes by credential identity; and exposes
--aws-role-arn on the pmm-admin RDS commands. AWS SDK bumped to the
versions already on main, with service/sts promoted to a direct
dependency.

Docs are intentionally excluded; they land via #5838.
Known defects from the #5804 review are fixed in follow-up commits on
this branch.

Original PR: #5804

Signed-off-by: Ante Gulin <ante.gulin@percona.com>

* PMM-15389 Bound and validate RDS role assumption in discovery

Fixes two defects in the DiscoverRDS assume-role path found reviewing
#5804.

The STS AssumeRole call ran on the raw request context, before the
awsDiscoverTimeout region-scan deadline was applied, and the HTTP client
had no timeout of its own. A slow or unreachable STS endpoint could hang
DiscoverRDS for minutes. The assume now runs under its own
awsDiscoverTimeout deadline and the HTTP client carries a matching
per-request ceiling.

The role ARN's partition was never checked against settings.AWSPartitions.
A role in a partition PMM is not configured to scan could assume
successfully and then fail every scanned region, or return nothing with no
error. The partition is now rejected up front with FailedPrecondition,
before any network call. stsRegionForRoleARN returns the partition for this
check.

Signed-off-by: Ante Gulin <ante.gulin@percona.com>

* PMM-15389 Gate RDS role ARN on pmm-agent 3.4.0

A pmm-agent older than 3.4.0 bundles an rds_exporter that assumes an IAM
role from empty static credentials rather than the ambient chain, so the
sts:AssumeRole is never signed and the exporter dies with
EmptyStaticCreds. Before this, a current server accepted --aws-role-arn
for such an agent, returned success, and left the exporter failing with
no server-side signal.

CreateAgent and ChangeAgent now reject a role-based rds_exporter whose
pmm-agent is below PMMAgentMinVersionForAWSRoleARN (3.4.0-0), with
FailedPrecondition. Static-key exporters are unaffected. An agent with no
reported version is treated as unsupported, which is the safe default.

Signed-off-by: Ante Gulin <ante.gulin@percona.com>

* PMM-15389 Make clearing an RDS role ARN an explicit change

Clearing the role ARN (--aws-role-arn="") without also supplying keys
leaves the exporter with empty AWS options, so rds_exporter falls back to
the pmm-agent host's ambient credentials - often a broader identity than
the role the operator deliberately chose. This transition was silent: the
CLI printed only "cleared AWS role ARN".

Ambient credentials are a legitimate mode, so this is not rejected;
instead it is made explicit. The pmm-admin change command now states that
the exporter will use the host's ambient credentials when the ARN is
cleared without keys, the flag help spells out the mutual-exclusion and
clear semantics, and ChangeRDSExporter logs a Warn covering the API and
UI callers that do not see the CLI message.

Signed-off-by: Ante Gulin <ante.gulin@percona.com>

* PMM-15389 Version pmm-server in roster role-ARN test

The 3.4.0 role-ARN gate rejects a role-based rds_exporter whose pmm-agent
reports no version. TestRoster/GetFallbackHandlesRoleARN creates one on the
built-in pmm-server agent, which the test fixtures seed without a version,
so the gate refused it. Give that agent a supported version in the test, as
any running 3.4.0+ server would report once the built-in agent connects.

Signed-off-by: Ante Gulin <ante.gulin@percona.com>

* PMM-15389 Allow RDS role ARN when pmm-agent version is unknown

The pmm-agent 3.4.0 gate rejected a role ARN whenever IsAgentSupported
returned any error, which includes the 'no version info' case for a
pmm-agent that has not connected yet. Reject only AgentNotSupportedError
(a pmm-agent known to be too old); an unreported version no longer
blocks storing the config and the gate re-checks once the agent
connects. This is what the api-test TestRDSExporter/WithRoleARN and the
feature's own intent expect.

Signed-off-by: Ante Gulin <ante.gulin@percona.com>
(cherry picked from commit 1ebc19b)

* PMM-15389 Fix golangci-lint findings in RDS role ARN code

Shorten the change-agent role-ARN help to satisfy lll, drop the named
returns on stsRegionForRoleARN, and remove a redundant .Querier selector
in the roster test (golangci-lint --fix).

Signed-off-by: Ante Gulin <ante.gulin@percona.com>

* PMM-15389 Tighten role-ARN version gate and STS timeout

Address CodeRabbit review on #5944:

- The role-ARN gate allowed on any non-AgentNotSupportedError, so a
  present-but-malformed pmm-agent version (and, on the change path, a
  PMM Agent lookup error) silently persisted an unverifiable role ARN.
  Add an ErrAgentVersionNotReported sentinel and allow only that case;
  reject the rest.
- DiscoverRDS reported an STS timeout as FailedPrecondition; return
  DeadlineExceeded for context cancellation/deadline instead.

Signed-off-by: Ante Gulin <ante.gulin@percona.com>

* PMM-15389 Backfill instance_id on remote RDS nodes

Migration 110 filled instance_id only for the remote RDS nodes that
existed at the time. AddRemoteRDSNode never passed InstanceID on, so
every node created through the inventory API or `pmm-admin inventory
add node remote-rds` since then has an empty instance_id. Its
rds_exporter queries CloudWatch with an empty DBInstanceIdentifier,
and the new guard now refuses to attach an exporter to it at all,
with no API to update the node.

Fill it in from the first label of the address. That is the DB
instance identifier whether the address holds the bare identifier,
as the inventory API documents, or the RDS endpoint. Nodes that
already have an instance_id are left alone.

Signed-off-by: Ante Gulin <ante.gulin@percona.com>

* PMM-15389 Refuse role ARN on unversioned pmm-agent

The role ARN check let through a pmm-agent that had not reported a
version yet. Such an agent can be older than 3.4.0: it would accept
the config, report RUNNING and scrape nothing. Nothing checks the
version again once the agent connects, despite what the comment said.

Treat an unreported version like any other failed version check, as
IsAgentSupported does everywhere else, and drop the
ErrAgentVersionNotReported sentinel that only served this exception.
The api-test that stored a role ARN on a never-connected pmm-agent
now uses the pmm-server agent, and a new subtest checks that the
never-connected case is refused.

Signed-off-by: Ante Gulin <ante.gulin@percona.com>

* PMM-15389 Refuse duplicate RDS instance IDs

UNIQUE (address, region) used to cover the DB instance identifier
because the address was the identifier. Since the address became the
endpoint, two remote RDS nodes in one region can carry the same
instance_id, and rds_exporter then queries CloudWatch for that
instance twice.

Check instance_id and region when creating a remote RDS node, next to
the address check. The check is in the application only, since
existing data may already hold duplicates or empty values.

Signed-off-by: Ante Gulin <ante.gulin@percona.com>

* PMM-15389 Withhold role-based RDS exporters from old agents

The pmm-agent version was only checked when an rds_exporter with a
role ARN was created or changed. A pmm-agent downgraded below 3.4.0
afterwards still received the role in its state, ran an rds_exporter
that ignores it, reported RUNNING and scraped nothing.

The state updater now re-checks the version every time it sends the
state and leaves such an exporter out with a warning. The change-time
gate runs only when the request sets a role ARN, so an exporter stuck
on a downgraded agent can still be disabled, relabelled or moved to
ambient credentials.

Signed-off-by: Ante Gulin <ante.gulin@percona.com>

* PMM-15389 Avoid %q in RDS role error messages

Partitions and role ARNs contain no spaces, so %s reads better and
follows the error message convention.

Signed-off-by: Ante Gulin <ante.gulin@percona.com>

* PMM-15389 Scan only the role's partition in RDS discovery

Credentials assumed for a role are valid only in the role's own
partition, yet discovery scanned every region of every enabled
partition. The extra calls could only fail, and when the role's
partition had no instances the first such failure was returned
instead of an empty list.

The discovery tests now run the role path against a fake STS and
RDS endpoint and check, from the SigV4 credential scope, which
regions were signed.

Signed-off-by: Ante Gulin <ante.gulin@percona.com>

* PMM-15389 Derive instance_id from bare RDS address

Before 3.4.0 the inventory API took the DB instance identifier as the
address, and rds_exporter used the address as its instance. Clients
from that time, including older pmm-admin builds, still send it that
way and omit instance_id. PMM-13157 moved the exporter to instance_id
without wiring the inventory path, so those clients have scraped
nothing since, and the new empty-identifier check would have rejected
them outright.

When instance_id is empty and the address has no dots, use the
address as the identifier, which restores the pre-3.4.0 contract. An
endpoint address without an identifier is still refused: its first
label is only right for a standard instance endpoint, not for a
cluster endpoint, a CNAME or an IP.

Signed-off-by: Ante Gulin <ante.gulin@percona.com>

* PMM-15389 Backfill instance_id from bare addresses

Splitting the first label off an endpoint stores a wrong identifier
for an Aurora cluster endpoint, a CNAME or an IP. rds_exporter drops
such an instance with "can't determine resourceID" just as it does an
empty one, but the wrong value passes the new CreateAgent guard,
looks plausible in the inventory, and cannot be corrected through the
API.

Backfill only rows whose address has no dots, the same rule the
creation fallback uses. Endpoint addresses stay empty so that
attaching an rds_exporter is refused and the node is re-added with
--instance-id.

Signed-off-by: Ante Gulin <ante.gulin@percona.com>

* PMM-15389 Limit rds_exporter to remote RDS nodes

Generic and container nodes allow every agent type, so an
rds_exporter could be attached to one and skip the instance_id guard.
The guard would not help there anyway: migration 110 copied the
address into instance_id for every node type. rds_exporter scrapes
CloudWatch for the node's region and DB instance identifier, so it
only makes sense on a remote RDS node.

Refuse the combination in compatibleNodeAndAgent and drop the
node-type condition from the guard, which is now redundant.

Signed-off-by: Ante Gulin <ante.gulin@percona.com>

* PMM-15389 Lowercase RDS instance identifiers

AWS stores DB instance identifiers in lowercase, and rds_exporter
compares the configured value against DescribeDBInstances with plain
string equality before using it as the CloudWatch dimension. A
mixed-case identifier never matches, and the uniqueness check does
not see it as a duplicate of the lowercase one.

Lowercase the identifier in createNodeWithID before validation,
storage and the uniqueness check, which covers the inventory and the
management path.

Signed-off-by: Ante Gulin <ante.gulin@percona.com>

* PMM-15389 Test --instance-id parsing

Cover the required flag and the request body: parsing fails without
--instance-id, and the value reaches remote_rds.instance_id.

Signed-off-by: Ante Gulin <ante.gulin@percona.com>

* PMM-15389 Clarify RDS node address comments

Nodes created before 3.4.0 or through the inventory API hold the
bare identifier in address, not the endpoint. Say so on both
messages, describe the instance_id fallback and lowercasing, and call
RemoteRDSNode.instance_id a DB instance identifier rather than an
AWS instance ID, which reads like an EC2 ID.

Signed-off-by: Ante Gulin <ante.gulin@percona.com>

* PMM-15389 Update API descriptors

Add the instance_id field on AddRemoteRDSNodeParams to the buf
breaking baseline.

Signed-off-by: Ante Gulin <ante.gulin@percona.com>

* PMM-15389 Lowercase identifiers in migration 119

Migration 110 copied the address into instance_id as typed, and the
management API stores the identifier it is given, so existing remote
RDS nodes can carry a mixed-case identifier. AWS stores DB instance
identifiers in lowercase and rds_exporter matches them exactly, so
such a node passes the new guard and still scrapes nothing.

Lowercase existing identifiers and the backfilled bare addresses, the
same rule createNodeWithID now applies to new nodes.

Signed-off-by: Ante Gulin <ante.gulin@percona.com>

* PMM-15389 Regenerate nodes.pb.go with make gen

The file committed in bdbbe96 came from make -C api gen without the
formatting pass that make gen runs last, so CI's format check restored
the blank line gofumpt inserts before the depIdxs declaration.

Regenerated with make gen and make format in the devcontainer; that
blank line is the only change.

Signed-off-by: Ante Gulin <ante.gulin@percona.com>

* PMM-15389 Honor AWS_REGION when assuming RDS role

DiscoverRDS always assumed the IAM role against the partition's home
region (us-east-1 for commercial AWS), even when PMM Server had a
region configured. A server whose egress is limited to one region
could never reach that STS endpoint and failed with "Timed out
assuming role".

Assume the role in the region the AWS SDK resolved from AWS_REGION,
AWS_DEFAULT_REGION or the profile, and keep the partition default only
as the fallback for a server with no region configured. A configured
region outside the role's partition cannot issue its credentials, so
reject it up front with a FailedPrecondition that names the variable,
before any network call.

Only the STS call moves. Region scanning, the partition allow-list in
settings, and the discovery deadlines are unchanged.

Signed-off-by: Ante Gulin <ante.gulin@percona.com>

* PMM-15389 Allow AWS_REGION env vars in pmm-managed

AWS_REGION and AWS_DEFAULT_REGION now steer which STS endpoint PMM
Server uses to assume an RDS role, so they are documented input rather
than unknown variables. Skip them in the environment parser alongside
the existing AWS_ACCESS_KEY and AWS_SECRET_KEY case instead of logging
"unknown environment variable" at startup.

Signed-off-by: Ante Gulin <ante.gulin@percona.com>

* PMM-15389 Raise RDS discovery timeout to 20s

Signed-off-by: Ante Gulin <ante.gulin@percona.com>

* PMM-15389 Move RDS role assumption to a helper

Extract the role assumption block of DiscoverRDS into assumeRDSRole
to fix the nestif lint finding. Behavior is unchanged.

Signed-off-by: Ante Gulin <ante.gulin@percona.com>

* PMM-15389 Trim whitespace from RDS instance IDs

A blank instance_id was stored as is and could never match an RDS
instance. Trim it, and treat a blank value like an omitted one.

Signed-off-by: Ante Gulin <ante.gulin@percona.com>

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Signed-off-by: Ante Gulin <ante.gulin@percona.com>
Co-authored-by: Fergal Kearns <fergal.kearns@deliveroo.co.uk>

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