Amazon RDS Proxy Demo Code

This code accompanies the Amazon RDS Proxy Demo video.

Files

• index.js - The Lambda function shown in the demo video. This Lambda provides the application logic for the API presented in the demo.

Notes

• The Lambda function relies on the following environment variables to be defined:

  • database
  • user
  • proxyendpoint
  • port
  • region

• The code in the Lambda function does a query against a table named contacts in the database. It is expected the schema of this table has two columns as below:

email	varchar(255)
name	varchar(255)

MySQL Client Installation

You will need to package the mysql2 client library with your Lambda function. First, install the mysql2 client:

npm install –save mysql2

and then package the directory as described in AWS Lambda Deployment Package in Node.js.

Acknowlegements

The MySQL client linked in this sample is the mysql2 client.