diff --git a/packages/@aws-cdk/aws-rds/README.md b/packages/@aws-cdk/aws-rds/README.md
index b6883d7a75ccb..897008bc7db59 100644
--- a/packages/@aws-cdk/aws-rds/README.md
+++ b/packages/@aws-cdk/aws-rds/README.md
@@ -228,6 +228,37 @@ instance.grantConnect(role); // Grant the role connection access to the DB.
 **Note**: In addition to the setup above, a database user will need to be created to support IAM auth.
 See https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/UsingWithRDS.IAMDBAuth.DBAccounts.html for setup instructions.
 
+### Kerberos Authentication
+
+You can also authenticate using Kerberos to a database instance using AWS Managed Microsoft AD for authentication;
+See https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/kerberos-authentication.html for more information
+and a list of supported versions and limitations.
+
+The following example shows enabling domain support for a database instance and creating an IAM role to access
+Directory Services.
+
+```ts
+const role = new iam.Role(stack, 'RDSDirectoryServicesRole', {
+  assumedBy: new iam.ServicePrincipal('rds.amazonaws.com'),
+  managedPolicies: [
+    iam.ManagedPolicy.fromAwsManagedPolicyName('service-role/AmazonRDSDirectoryServiceAccess'),
+  ],
+});
+const instance = new rds.DatabaseInstance(stack, 'Instance', {
+  engine: rds.DatabaseInstanceEngine.mysql({ version: rds.MysqlEngineVersion.VER_8_0_19 }),
+  masterUsername: 'admin',
+  vpc,
+  domain: 'd-????????', // The ID of the domain for the instance to join.
+  domainRole: role, // Optional - will be create automatically if not provided.
+});
+```
+
+**Note**: In addition to the setup above, you need to make sure that the database instance has network connectivity
+to the domain controllers. This includes enabling cross-VPC traffic if in a different VPC and setting up the
+appropriate security groups/network ACL to allow traffic between the database instance and domain controllers.
+Once configured, see https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/kerberos-authentication.html for details
+on configuring users for each available database engine.
+
 ### Metrics
 
 Database instances expose metrics (`cloudwatch.Metric`):
diff --git a/packages/@aws-cdk/aws-rds/lib/instance-engine.ts b/packages/@aws-cdk/aws-rds/lib/instance-engine.ts
index 35ccb3fbea7f2..df715c9e0387a 100644
--- a/packages/@aws-cdk/aws-rds/lib/instance-engine.ts
+++ b/packages/@aws-cdk/aws-rds/lib/instance-engine.ts
@@ -7,6 +7,13 @@ import { EngineVersion } from './engine-version';
  * The options passed to {@link IInstanceEngine.bind}.
  */
 export interface InstanceEngineBindOptions {
+  /**
+   * The Active Directory directory ID to create the DB instance in.
+   *
+   * @default - none (it's an optional field)
+   */
+  readonly domain?: string;
+
   /**
    * The timezone of the database, set by the customer.
    *
@@ -184,6 +191,13 @@ class MariaDbInstanceEngine extends InstanceEngineBase {
         : undefined,
     });
   }
+
+  public bindToInstance(scope: core.Construct, options: InstanceEngineBindOptions): InstanceEngineConfig {
+    if (options.domain) {
+      throw new Error(`domain property cannot be configured for ${this.engineType}`);
+    }
+    return super.bindToInstance(scope, options);
+  }
 }
 
 /**
diff --git a/packages/@aws-cdk/aws-rds/lib/instance.ts b/packages/@aws-cdk/aws-rds/lib/instance.ts
index 7135a84592fd5..bb512d5e79c81 100644
--- a/packages/@aws-cdk/aws-rds/lib/instance.ts
+++ b/packages/@aws-cdk/aws-rds/lib/instance.ts
@@ -491,6 +491,21 @@ export interface DatabaseInstanceNewProps {
    * @default - No autoscaling of RDS instance
    */
   readonly maxAllocatedStorage?: number;
+
+  /**
+   * The Active Directory directory ID to create the DB instance in.
+   *
+   * @default - Do not join domain
+   */
+  readonly domain?: string;
+
+  /**
+   * The IAM role to be used when making API calls to the Directory Service. The role needs the AWS-managed policy
+   * AmazonRDSDirectoryServiceAccess or equivalent.
+   *
+   * @default - The role will be created for you if {@link DatabaseInstanceNewProps#domain} is specified
+   */
+  readonly domainRole?: iam.IRole;
 }
 
 /**
@@ -513,6 +528,9 @@ abstract class DatabaseInstanceNew extends DatabaseInstanceBase implements IData
   private readonly cloudwatchLogsRetention?: logs.RetentionDays;
   private readonly cloudwatchLogsRetentionRole?: iam.IRole;
 
+  private readonly domainId?: string;
+  private readonly domainRole?: iam.IRole;
+
   protected enableIamAuthentication?: boolean;
 
   constructor(scope: Construct, id: string, props: DatabaseInstanceNewProps) {
@@ -555,6 +573,16 @@ abstract class DatabaseInstanceNew extends DatabaseInstanceBase implements IData
     this.cloudwatchLogsRetentionRole = props.cloudwatchLogsRetentionRole;
     this.enableIamAuthentication = props.iamAuthentication;
 
+    if (props.domain) {
+      this.domainId = props.domain;
+      this.domainRole = props.domainRole || new iam.Role(this, 'RDSDirectoryServiceRole', {
+        assumedBy: new iam.ServicePrincipal('rds.amazonaws.com'),
+        managedPolicies: [
+          iam.ManagedPolicy.fromAwsManagedPolicyName('service-role/AmazonRDSDirectoryServiceAccess'),
+        ],
+      });
+    }
+
     this.newCfnProps = {
       autoMinorVersionUpgrade: props.autoMinorVersionUpgrade,
       availabilityZone: props.multiAz ? undefined : props.availabilityZone,
@@ -587,6 +615,8 @@ abstract class DatabaseInstanceNew extends DatabaseInstanceBase implements IData
       storageType,
       vpcSecurityGroups: securityGroups.map(s => s.securityGroupId),
       maxAllocatedStorage: props.maxAllocatedStorage,
+      domain: this.domainId,
+      domainIamRoleName: this.domainRole?.roleName,
     };
   }
 
diff --git a/packages/@aws-cdk/aws-rds/test/test.instance.ts b/packages/@aws-cdk/aws-rds/test/test.instance.ts
index 3383f4f93cd55..6a92c763621ed 100644
--- a/packages/@aws-cdk/aws-rds/test/test.instance.ts
+++ b/packages/@aws-cdk/aws-rds/test/test.instance.ts
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import { ABSENT, countResources, expect, haveResource, ResourcePart, haveResourceLike } from '@aws-cdk/assert';
+import { ABSENT, countResources, expect, haveResource, ResourcePart, haveResourceLike, anything } from '@aws-cdk/assert';
 import * as ec2 from '@aws-cdk/aws-ec2';
 import * as targets from '@aws-cdk/aws-events-targets';
 import { ManagedPolicy, Role, ServicePrincipal, AccountPrincipal } from '@aws-cdk/aws-iam';
@@ -757,4 +757,125 @@ export = {
     test.done();
   },
 
+  'domain - sets domain property'(test: Test) {
+    const domain = 'd-90670a8d36';
+
+    // WHEN
+    new rds.DatabaseInstance(stack, 'Instance', {
+      engine: rds.DatabaseInstanceEngine.sqlServerWeb({ version: rds.SqlServerEngineVersion.VER_14_00_3192_2_V1 }),
+      vpc,
+      masterUsername: 'admin',
+      domain: domain,
+    });
+
+    // THEN
+    expect(stack).to(haveResourceLike('AWS::RDS::DBInstance', {
+      Domain: domain,
+    }));
+
+    test.done();
+  },
+
+  'domain - uses role if provided'(test: Test) {
+    const domain = 'd-90670a8d36';
+
+    // WHEN
+    const role = new Role(stack, 'DomainRole', { assumedBy: new ServicePrincipal('rds.amazonaws.com') });
+    new rds.DatabaseInstance(stack, 'Instance', {
+      engine: rds.DatabaseInstanceEngine.sqlServerWeb({ version: rds.SqlServerEngineVersion.VER_14_00_3192_2_V1 }),
+      vpc,
+      masterUsername: 'admin',
+      domain: domain,
+      domainRole: role,
+    });
+
+    // THEN
+    expect(stack).to(haveResourceLike('AWS::RDS::DBInstance', {
+      Domain: domain,
+      DomainIAMRoleName: stack.resolve(role.roleName),
+    }));
+
+    test.done();
+  },
+
+  'domain - creates role if not provided'(test: Test) {
+    const domain = 'd-90670a8d36';
+
+    // WHEN
+    new rds.DatabaseInstance(stack, 'Instance', {
+      engine: rds.DatabaseInstanceEngine.sqlServerWeb({ version: rds.SqlServerEngineVersion.VER_14_00_3192_2_V1 }),
+      vpc,
+      masterUsername: 'admin',
+      domain: domain,
+    });
+
+    // THEN
+    expect(stack).to(haveResourceLike('AWS::RDS::DBInstance', {
+      Domain: domain,
+      DomainIAMRoleName: anything(),
+    }));
+
+    expect(stack).to(haveResource('AWS::IAM::Role', {
+      AssumeRolePolicyDocument: {
+        Statement: [
+          {
+            Action: 'sts:AssumeRole',
+            Effect: 'Allow',
+            Principal: {
+              Service: 'rds.amazonaws.com',
+            },
+          },
+        ],
+        Version: '2012-10-17',
+      },
+      ManagedPolicyArns: [
+        {
+          'Fn::Join': [
+            '',
+            [
+              'arn:',
+              {
+                Ref: 'AWS::Partition',
+              },
+              ':iam::aws:policy/service-role/AmazonRDSDirectoryServiceAccess',
+            ],
+          ],
+        },
+      ],
+    }));
+
+    test.done();
+  },
+
+  'throws when domain is set for mariadb database engine'(test: Test) {
+    const domainSupportedEngines = [rds.DatabaseInstanceEngine.SQL_SERVER_EE, rds.DatabaseInstanceEngine.SQL_SERVER_EX,
+      rds.DatabaseInstanceEngine.SQL_SERVER_SE, rds.DatabaseInstanceEngine.SQL_SERVER_WEB, rds.DatabaseInstanceEngine.MYSQL,
+      rds.DatabaseInstanceEngine.POSTGRES, rds.DatabaseInstanceEngine.ORACLE_EE];
+    const domainUnsupportedEngines = [rds.DatabaseInstanceEngine.MARIADB];
+
+    // THEN
+    domainSupportedEngines.forEach((engine) => {
+      test.ok(new rds.DatabaseInstance(stack, `${engine.engineType}-db`, {
+        engine,
+        instanceType: ec2.InstanceType.of(ec2.InstanceClass.C5, ec2.InstanceSize.SMALL),
+        masterUsername: 'master',
+        domain: 'd-90670a8d36',
+        vpc,
+      }));
+    });
+
+    domainUnsupportedEngines.forEach((engine) => {
+      const expectedError = new RegExp(`domain property cannot be configured for ${engine.engineType}`);
+
+      test.throws(() => new rds.DatabaseInstance(stack, `${engine.engineType}-db`, {
+        engine,
+        instanceType: ec2.InstanceType.of(ec2.InstanceClass.C5, ec2.InstanceSize.SMALL),
+        masterUsername: 'master',
+        domain: 'd-90670a8d36',
+        vpc,
+      }), expectedError);
+    });
+
+    test.done();
+  },
 };