Passwordless Authentication For Service Accounts

SingleStore’s private-preview Passwordless Authentication for Service Accounts enables applications to use AWS IAM roles, GCP service accounts, or Azure managed identities to obtain provider-issued tokens that are exchanged for short-lived JWTs, eliminating the need to store passwords or long-lived secrets when accessing SingleStore databases and Portal APIs. The approach is intended to improve security through reduced credential exposure, short-lived access, auditable cloud role identifiers, and customer-controlled database role mappings, while also reducing secret rotation, distribution, and credential-expiration issues. Workloads obtain a verifiable cloud identity token at runtime, submit it through a SingleStore library or REST interface, and receive a JWT that SingleStore validates against configured database users, roles, and API permissions. Prerequisites include a supported cloud identity, connectivity to SingleStore authentication endpoints in AWS us-east-1, use of the IAM authentication library or API, and corresponding identity mappings in SingleStore. Pilot success is measured by password-free connections, reliable JWT renewal, visible audit identities, effective revocation, fewer operational incidents, and no expected database performance impact under load.

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