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glarrain / connect-heroku-app-to-postgres-rds-with-ssl.md

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How to connect a Heroku application to an Amazon RDS PostgreSQL instance, forcing SSL and certificate chain verification

1 - Download the RDS certificates (root plus region-specific intermediate ones) bundle:

wget -O config/rds-combined-ca-bundle.pem https://s3.amazonaws.com/rds-downloads/rds-combined-ca-bundle.pem

2 - Add config/rds-combined-ca-bundle.pem to the repository and redeploy to Heroku.

3 - Update the DATABASE_URL env var: