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Category: AWS Client VPN

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 […]

The following diagram, shows the high-level architecture of an example scenario of using AWS Client VPN and connecting to an RDS instance.

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 […]