Overview

This article will introduce the creation of RDS for MySQL proxy instance, you can create and manage the instances through RDS console. The prices of databases with different engines and specifications are different, please refer to Product Price.

Description:

• Billing method: currently the proxy instance only supports post-payment, not support prepaid.
• Quantity restrictions: only one proxy instance can be purchased at a time, and only one proxy instance can be purchased for one master instance.
• Security: the proxy instances have been mounted with DB Firewall function, which can be used for alarming or intercepting the injection of SQL.

Preconditions

• Instance version: currently the proxy instance supports the creation of master instances of MySQL 5.6 and MySQL 5.7.
• Binding relationship: the proxy instance is not allowed to exist alone. Before it is created, a master instance must be created first. When the master instance is released, the corresponding proxy instance will be released along with the master instance.

Create a proxy instance

1. Login RDS RDS Admin Console.
2. At the upper left corner of the console page, select the Region where the instance is located, and enter the "RDS List" page.
3. Select a MySQL dual-computer version master instance, click the Instance Name to enter into the instance details page.

4. On the instance details page, click the Create Proxy Instance at the upper right corner to enter into the creation page.

   

5. Set the parameters of the proxy instance and confirm the instance configuration.

   parameter	description
   available zone	available zonean available zone is an independent physical area in a geographical area, and there is no substantive difference between different available zones. Compared with single available zone, multiple available zones can provide disaster tolerance at available zone level. Single available zone: create an proxy instance in the available zone specified by the user. Multiple available zone: the proxy instance nodes are randomly assigned to different selected available zones. Default allocation: same as the master instance.
   resource specification	Specification proposal Description: 2 nodes（master instance memory 1G-2G) 4 nodes（master instance memory 4G-8G) 6 nodes（master instance memory 16G-24G) 8 nodes（master instance memory 32G-64G) 16 nodes（master instance memory 96G-256G)
   network type	the network where the proxy instance is located, same as that of the master instance by default, and the subnet can be customized.
   purchase information	the proxy instance currently only supports post-payment, does not supports prepaid. Purchased quantity: only one proxy instance can be purchased at a time, and only one proxy instance can be purchased for one master instance.

6. Click Next：confirm order.
7. After confirming, click Go to Pay to complete the payment as prompted.

8. View instances

   After successful purchase, return to the page "Cloud Database RDS- Instance List", and you can see the created RDS instance of cloud database (the creation time takes about 5-10 minutes), as well as the instance status, location, database type and expiration time information.

9. View instance details

   In the instance list, click the instance name to enter the agent implementation details page. The running status, configuration and other information of the instance are displayed on the "Basic Information" tab; you can manage instances by selecting other tabs.

FAQs

• What account does the RDS proxy instance of cloud database log in with?

  Login to RDS proxy instance of cloud database needs to use the proxy instance special account and password. When creating the proxy instance special account, it will automatically synchronize the account to the master instance.

Related API

• API Interface: Create RDS Proxy Instance