Set up notifications for Amazon RDS pending maintenance actions
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This article provides a solution to set up custom notifications for pending maintenance actions on Amazon RDS instances. It enables automating the process of receiving timely notifications about maintenance activities like security updates and version upgrades that can potentially interrupt database availability.
Specifically, the article covers:
- Solution overview: Using Amazon SNS, EventBridge, and Lambda to send notifications about pending RDS maintenance actions
- Prerequisites: Creating an RDS instance and SNS topic
- Checking RDS instances for pending maintenance actions
- Creating an SNS topic for notifications
- Creating a Lambda function to identify pending actions and publish to SNS
- Creating an EventBridge schedule to invoke the Lambda function periodically
- Cleaning up resources to avoid charges
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