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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