[SOLVED] Get hardware information (e.g lscpu) of an Amazon Rds Instance from the CLI

Issue

How do I connect to the underlying instance of an AWS RDS database instance(e.g db.m5d.xlarge) to get the hardware information? I am interested in knowing the hardware information of the instance type used to launch the database.

What I intend to achieve, is to log into the instance, just as we would normally ssh into a regular ec2 instance (e.g t2.micro) and run the lscpu command to get the hardware information, but instead I want to do this with an RDS database instance such as db.m5d.xlarge.

Is this possible? If yes, how can this be achieved?

Solution

How do I connect to the underlying instance of an AWS RDS database instance

You don't. The whole point of a managed database service is that someone else manages the underlying hardware for you. You cannot ssh into an RDS instance, or run Unix commands like lscpu on that instance.

Answered By - Mark B

Answer Checked By - Marie Seifert (WPSolving Admin)