RDS Proxy

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  • A fully managed database proxy for RDS.

  • Allows application to pool connection established between database and application.

  • Improving database efficiency by reducing the stress of managing open connections and thereby reducing usage of database resources (RAM/CPU).

  • It is serverless, autoscaling and highly available with multi-AZ.

  • Can reduce failover time by 66% for RDS and Aurora.

  • Supports all the available flavor of database in AWS namely,

    • Aurora

    • PostgreSQL

    • MySQL

    • MariaDB

    • Oracle

    • Microsoft SQL Server

  • RDS Proxy is never accessible from public internet, must be accessible only from VPC.

  • Enforce IAM Authentication for DB, and securely store credentials in AWS Secret Manager.

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