A First Look at Amazon RDS Proxy (opens in new tab)

At re:Invent in Las Vegas in December 2019, AWS announced the public preview of RDS Proxy, a fully managed database proxy that sits between your application and RDS. The new service offers to “share established database connections, improving database efficiency and application scalability”. But one of the benefits that caught my eye is the ability to reduce the downtime in case of an instance failure and a failover. As for the announcement: