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Amazon RDS Proxy
- Fully managed database proxy for Amazon RDS and Aurora.
- Pools and shares database connections, reducing CPU/memory load and minimizing open connections or timeouts.
- Serverless, auto-scaling, and highly available across multiple AZs.
- Failover acceleration: reduces RDS and Aurora failover times by up to 66%.
- Supported engines:
- RDS: MySQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, Microsoft SQL Server
- Aurora: MySQL, PostgreSQL
- Security:
- Enforces IAM database authentication.
- Stores and manages credentials in AWS Secrets Manager.
- Never publicly accessible — must be accessed from within a VPC.
- Compatibility:
- Usually requires no application code changes to integrate.