Fix SSL certificate issue for AWS RDS connections

Author: Marfuen

apps/web/package.json

@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@
   },
   "dependencies": {
     "@t3-oss/env-nextjs": "^0.13.8",
-    "aws-ssl-profiles": "^1.1.2",
     "axios": "^1.10.0",
     "dotenv": "^17.1.0",
     "drizzle-orm": "^0.44.2",

apps/web/src/db/index.ts

@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-import awsCaBundle from "aws-ssl-profiles";
 import { drizzle } from "drizzle-orm/node-postgres";
 import { Pool } from "pg";
 import { env } from "../env";
@@ -7,8 +6,14 @@ import * as schema from "./schema";
 // Create a connection pool using validated environment variables
 const pool = new Pool({
   connectionString: env.DATABASE_URL,
-  // Use AWS CA bundle for SSL verification (we have proper certs in Docker)
-  ssl: awsCaBundle,
+  // For AWS RDS, we need to handle SSL differently in different environments
+  ssl:
+    process.env.NODE_ENV === "production"
+      ? {
+          rejectUnauthorized: false, // AWS RDS uses self-signed certificates
+          require: true, // But we still require SSL
+        }
+      : false,
 });
 
 // Create the database instance