Access Amazon RDS across AWS accounts using AWS PrivateLink, Network Load Balancer, and Amazon RDS Proxy
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This article explains how to securely and efficiently connect applications in different AWS accounts to an RDS database instance or Aurora cluster using AWS PrivateLink, Network Load Balancer, and RDS Proxy.
Specifically, the article covers:
- Solution overview and architecture
- Prerequisites for the solution
- Setting up infrastructure using AWS CloudFormation
- Registering RDS Proxy endpoint IPs in NLB target group
- Creating a PrivateLink endpoint service
- Creating a VPC endpoint in the application account
- Configuring a PostgreSQL client and testing the connection
- Testing a database failover event
- Limitations of the solution
- Cleaning up resources
- Pricing and alternative solutions
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