Schedule modifications of Amazon RDS using Amazon EventBridge Scheduler and AWS Lambda

This article discusses how to schedule modifications to Amazon RDS database instances using Amazon EventBridge Scheduler and AWS Lambda. It provides a solution to automate scaling RDS instances up or down based on a schedule.

Specifically, the article covers:

• Solution overview using EventBridge Scheduler to invoke a Lambda function for modifying RDS instances
• Prerequisites like having an AWS account and RDS instance
• Creating tags for identifying RDS instances to scale
• Creating an IAM policy and role for the Lambda function
• Creating a Lambda function in Python to modify the RDS instance type
• Creating a schedule using EventBridge Scheduler to invoke the Lambda function
• Cleaning up the created resources