Use Amazon RDS Proxy and AWS PrivateLink to access Amazon RDS databases across AWS Organizations at American Family Insurance Group

This article explains how American Family Insurance Group implemented a highly available solution to share centralized information stored in Amazon RDS databases across different AWS accounts and VPCs with overlapping CIDR ranges. The key points are:

Specifically, the article covers:

• The challenge of sharing RDS databases across different AWS accounts and VPCs with overlapping CIDR ranges
• The solution architecture combining Amazon RDS Proxy and AWS PrivateLink to enable secure and private access to RDS databases
• Step-by-step instructions on setting up the solution, including creating an RDS DB instance and proxy, PrivateLink endpoint service, and VPC endpoints
• Testing the connection and accessing the RDS database from a consumer account using PrivateLink
• Conclusion highlighting the successful implementation of the solution by American Family Insurance Group