RDS Proxy
About
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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