AWS Database Blog
Category: AWS VPN
Managing IP address exhaustion for Amazon RDS Proxy
In this post, you will learn how to address IP address exhaustion challenges when working with Amazon RDS Proxy. For customers experiencing IP exhaustion with RDS Proxy, migrating to IPv6 address space can be an effective solution if your workload supports IPv6. This post focuses on workloads that cannot support IPv6 address space and provides an alternative approach using IPv4 subnet expansion. The solution focuses on expanding your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) CIDR range, establishing new subnets, and executing a carefully planned switching of your proxy to a new subnet configuration.
Securely access Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) locally using AWS Client VPN
Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is a scalable, highly durable, and fully managed database service for operating mission-critical MongoDB workloads. When interfacing with a document database such as Amazon DocumentDB, developers need an environment to test and debug their applications. In this post, we cover how to connect to your Amazon DocumentDB resources from outside […]
Accessing an Amazon RDS instance remotely using AWS Client VPN
November 2022: This post was reviewed and updated for accuracy. Developers and database administrators, often login remotely to an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance on a public subnet and access the Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) instance. For increased productivity and ease of use, in many cases, there is a need to […]


