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Write to Amazon RDS

To write data to a relational database hosted on Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) with Flux:

  1. Import the sql package

  2. Pipe-forward data into sql.to() and provide the following parameters:

Write to an Amazon RDS PostgreSQL database
import "sql"

data
    |> sql.to(
        driverName: "postgres",
        dataSourceName: "postgresql://my-instance.123456789012.us-east-1.rds.amazonaws.com:5432",
        table: "example_table",
    )

Supported database engines

Use the following guides to query supported Amazon RDS database engines:

Amazon RDS connection credentials

Amazon RDS provides connection credentials required to connect to your database instance. The following links provide more information for each database engine:


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