Querying RDS MySQL DB With NodeJS Lambda Function

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Querying RDS MySQL DB With NodeJS Lambda Function

Recently, I tried AWS lambda for the first time. My task was to query an RDS MySQL database. In this blog post, I will share my experience on that.

First Attempt: Using the Inline Code Editor

Since I was using NodeJS, the first thing was to figure out a good MySQL node package. I found this MySQL library thanks to Douglas Wilson, and it has good documentation, as well. Writing the code was simple.

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