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A word on RDS Proxy

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A word on RDS Proxy

- [Instructor] Common challenges that occur when using relational databases include a large number of open connections to the database server, high rate of open and close connection requests, and over-utilization of database memory and compute resources. Amazon RDS Proxy aims to address this problem and improve the performance efficiency of your database instances. Typically, your client applications will establish direct connections with your RDS database instance. As the name suggests, RDS Proxy sits in between the client application and the RDS database and proxies connections. The result is improved application performance and an increase in application availability without rewriting your application code. Let's understand this in detail. Issues can arise with databases when you receive new connection requests quickly or when you have oversubscribing connections. This is because opening and closing connections…

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