SSL Issues with Athena DB connection

Hello, I’m working with an airgapped deployment of metabase hosted in an aws k8s environment. I’m working to connect athena as a DB to metabase but keep running into the follow SSL issue

connection test failed: could not get query execution ID: Unable to execute HTTP request: javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: PKIX path building failed: sun.security.provider.certpath.SUNCertPathBuilderException: unable to find valid certification path to requested target (SDK Attempt Count: 1)

I have identified a working ca.pem file and confirmed it works to hit the athena endpoint but I can’t seem to get metabase to natively use this certificate in it’s db connection. Would love to hear if anyone has encountered something like this before.

Any help is greatly appreciated!

What about passing the cert in the connection string?