Connecting to an Amazon RDS database from an AWS Lambda function with IAM authentication
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) is a collection of managed services that makes it simple to set up, operate, and scale databases in the cloud. Connect to an RDS database using IAM authentication.
Copy the code into your Lambda function
Follow the AWS Lambda instructions for packaging with dependencies and uploading in .zip format. This snippet uses the mysql2/promise library.
/*
Node.js code here.
*/
// ES6+ example
import { Signer } from "@aws-sdk/rds-signer";
import mysql from 'mysql2/promise';
async function createAuthToken() {
// Define connection authentication parameters
const dbinfo = {
hostname: process.env.ProxyHostName,
port: process.env.Port,
username: process.env.DBUserName,
region: process.env.AWS_REGION,
}
// Create RDS Signer object
const signer = new Signer(dbinfo);
// Request authorization token from RDS, specifying the username
const token = await signer.getAuthToken();
return token;
}
async function dbOps() {
// Obtain auth token
const token = await createAuthToken();
// Define connection configuration
let connectionConfig = {
host: process.env.ProxyHostName,
user: process.env.DBUserName,
password: token,
database: process.env.DBName,
ssl: 'Amazon RDS'
}
// Create the connection to the DB
const conn = await mysql.createConnection(connectionConfig);
// Obtain the result of the query
const [res,] = await conn.execute('select ?+? as sum', [3, 2]);
return res;
}
export const handler = async (event) => {
// Execute database flow
const result = await dbOps();
// Return result
return {
statusCode: 200,
body: JSON.stringify("The selected sum is: " + result[0].sum)
}
};
Visit the GitHub repo for this snippet.