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Amazon RDS proxy

Amazon RDS proxy - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

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Amazon RDS proxy

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- Hi. In this video we will discuss the Amazon RDS Proxy, which is a fully managed database proxy server for Amazon Relational Database Service. It makes your applications more scalable, more resilient to database failures, and more secure. In this lecture, you'll be able to learn what is a database proxy server, understand the benefits of using an RDS Proxy, and analyze when to use RDS Proxy in an infrastructure. But before we talk about RDS Proxy in detail, let us first define what the database proxy server is. Applications usually keep a good number of database connections open to ensure that they're able to respond to user requests quickly, but some of these connections may not be actively used when there are fewer requests to the database. These idle connections still consume database memory and compute resources that results in over-provisioned database with high memory and high compute specs. This is where a…

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