A guide for Amazon RDS for IBM Db2, AWS’s managed Db2 database service. It covers licensing, secure connections, migration from self-managed Db2 systems, backups, replication, authentication, auditing, and permissions.

Use it to provision and connect to RDS Db2, migrate Db2 workloads, configure backups and failover, and troubleshoot authentication or security issues.

It brings together the AWS-specific setup and Db2-specific constraints that make provisioning, migration, and operations difficult.

rds-db2 — Skill for Claude Code and Codex by aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws

About the project

Agent Toolkit for AWS is a collection of AWS-supported MCP servers, skills, plugins, commands, and hooks that help AI coding agents build, deploy, and manage applications on AWS. It is used by developers working with AWS services through agents such as Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and Kiro. The catalogue entries are the toolkit's own agent extensions for AWS development and operations.

aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws · 2,886 stars · on GitHub

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent

npx skills add aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws --skill rds-db2

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 149 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 6,709 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan B 2 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits

Socket pass 24 Jun 2026
Snyk warn 24 Jun 2026
NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026

SkillSpector: 2 findings, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

medium Privilege Escalation · line 26
Commands invoke sudo or root privileges. Verify this elevated access is necessary and justified.

Fix: Avoid sudo/root unless strictly required. Prefer least-privilege patterns. If elevation is needed, document the justification and scope.
medium Rogue Agent · line 83
Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.

Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.

How audits are shown

Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.

Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00149	$0.06709
Opus 5.5	$0.00060	$0.02684
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00030	$0.01342
Haiku 4.5	$0.00015	$0.00671

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 4fd64f6e1eae, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

rds-db2 scanned grade B with 2 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 1mo ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 6 executable files (scripts/create-db2-audit-role.sh, scripts/db2-driver.sh, scripts/db2-kerberos-test.sh, …), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

- Client install: `bash`/`curl` access, run as root and as `db2inst1`

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

- Client install: `bash`/`curl` access, run as root and as `db2inst1`

skills/specialized-skills/database-skills/rds-db2/SKILL.md · 243 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 243 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Amazon RDS for Db2

Overview

Amazon RDS for Db2 is a managed IBM Db2 LUW service. RDS for Db2 is managed — you cannot SSH to the host, install agents, or run unfenced external stored procedures in C/COBOL. Java stored procedures work via sqlj.install_jar. This skill covers the operator lifecycle: provisioning with IBM licensing, client install and TLS connectivity, migration from self-managed Db2 on Linux/AIX/Windows/z/OS/AS400, S3 backup and restore, Multi-AZ and cross-region standby replicas, and RDSADMIN stored procedures that replace SYSCTRL/SYSMAINT authority.

It also covers six additional security and operations areas: customer-managed KMS keys (BYOK), self-managed Active Directory with Kerberos authentication, Db2 audit to S3, code page and collation selection (EBCDIC, CCSID), minimum IAM permissions, and EC2/RDS colocation for Multi-AZ latency and failover.

The AWS MCP server is recommended but not required; all operations are expressed in AWS CLI syntax and run with or without it.

Routes to the matching sub-skill reference. Load only the matching reference.

Common Tasks

Verify Dependencies

Before executing an RDS for Db2 workflow, confirm required tools exist. Do not run installers or API calls yet.

AWS CLI v2 for every RDS API call
AWS credentials via managed mechanism (IAM role, instance profile, ada credentials update) — not pasted credentials
Client install: bash/curl access, run as root and as db2inst1
Airgap install: internet-connected machine + target with VPC endpoints for S3, SSM, Secrets Manager
Mainframe migration: z/OS access, IBM ADB2GEN license, Python 3
BYOK / customer-managed KMS: openssl (to wrap imported key material) and jq (to parse get-parameters-for-import output)
Self-managed Active Directory + Kerberos: realmd, sssd, adcli, krb5-workstation on the client, plus a valid Kerberos ticket (kinit produces a TGT — check with klist)
Kerberos JDBC test: a JDK and the Db2 JDBC driver db2jcc4.jar v4.33+ (earlier driver versions lack securityMechanism=11 Kerberos support)

Read the full file on GitHub · 243 lines

Files

What ships with it

28 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

1mo ago First seen · 243 lines · 149 tokens per session scan B 4fd64f6e1eae

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rds-db2 is a skill published in the GitHub repository aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws (2,886 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 149 tokens to every session and 6,709 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it B with 2 findings (asks for root, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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