How to set up AWS RDS Proxy with IAM Authentication enabled to Aurora Serverless V2 Cluster

What is RDS Proxy Many applications, including those built on modern serverless architectures, can have many open connections to the database server and may open and close database connections at a high rate, exhausting database memory and compute resources. Amazon RDS Proxy allows applications to pool and share connections established with the database, improving database efficiency and application scalability. With RDS Proxy, failover times for Aurora and RDS databases are reduced by up to 66%, and database credentials, authentication, and access can be managed through integration with AWS Secrets Manager and AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)....

August 12, 2022 · 6 min · Vishnu Prasad

DynamoDB CheatSheet For NodeJS/JavaScript

Amazon DynamoDB is a fully managed NoSQL database service that provides fast and predictable performance with seamless scalability. DynamoDB lets you offload the administrative burdens of operating and scaling a distributed database so that you don’t have to worry about hardware provisioning, setup, and configuration, replication, software patching, or cluster scaling. DynamoDB also offers encryption at rest, which eliminates the operational burden and complexity involved in protecting sensitive data. This cheat sheet will cover the most commonly used scenarios of data operations in DynamoDB with AWS DynamoDB Document client for JavaScript/Nodejs....

September 1, 2020 · 4 min · Vishnu Prasad