AWX connectivity to AWS RDS Postgres issues when forcing SSL

Hi team,

I am having issues with getting the awx_task deployment, and awx_web deployment to connect to an AWS RDS database when we enable the rds.force_ssl: 1 parameter.

When this parameter is turned on and we have the ssl_mode of the postgres configurations secret set to require, we are recieving the following error:

django.db.utils.OperationalError: connection failed: ems not enabled

These are running on FIPS enabled AMI’s in an EKS cluster, and when we checked the status, we were able to see that FIPS was enabled but the setup was logging as incomplete.

We are able to get AWX running when we turn the rds.force_ssl parameter to false, but this is a requirement to have this setting enabled for running in our environment.

Any help would be greatly appreciated in this space.

Cheers.