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Automatically scale Amazon RDS storage using Amazon CloudWatch and AWS Lambda

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This article explains how to automatically scale Amazon RDS storage using Amazon CloudWatch and AWS Lambda. It provides a solution to increase RDS storage by a user-defined percentage when it is running out of space, beyond the default auto-scaling increment.

Specifically, the article covers:

  • Overview of the solution architecture
  • Prerequisites needed
  • Creating solution resources with AWS CloudFormation
  • Creating a CloudWatch alarm to monitor RDS free storage
  • Details of the Lambda function code to scale RDS storage
  • Clean up instructions to remove the solution


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