rds-oss

An agent skill by aws, from aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws. Tags: database, deployment, mysql, postgresql, rds.

What it does

Advises on Amazon RDS open-source engines (MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL) for instance creation, upgrade planning, commitment pricing, proxy evaluation, and Blue/Green deployments. Handles any RDS MySQL, MariaDB, or PostgreSQL question, including create a production-ready RDS MySQL instance, provision an RDS PostgreSQL database, run the RDS upgrade advisor for my RDS MySQL instance, what are my upgrade options, upgrade RDS MariaDB from 10.6 to the latest version, should I buy reserved instances or a savings plan for db.r7g.2xlarge RDS MySQL, change a VARCHAR to INT column on RDS MySQL 8.0 with Blue/Green, and does RDS Proxy help when PgBouncer already runs in transaction mode. Covers instance creation with production best practices, describe-db-instances and describe-db-engine-versions upgrade-target workflow, live prechecks via SSM or direct connection, RI versus DSP commitment pricing, RDS Proxy versus PgBouncer, and Blue/Green lifecycle with binlog replay compatibility.

Install

With the skills CLI, which installs into Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and other agents:

npx skills add aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws --skill rds-oss

Or copy the skill folder into Claude Code's skills directory by hand (~/.claude/skills for every project, or .claude/skills inside one):

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws
cp -r agent-toolkit-for-aws/skills/specialized-skills/database-skills/rds-oss ~/.claude/skills/rds-oss

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Source

Repository

aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws (all skills from this repository)

Path

skills/specialized-skills/database-skills/rds-oss/SKILL.md

Branch

main

Updated

2026-09-19

Related skills

• postgres — Configure DigitalOcean Managed Postgres with bindable variables or schema isolation.
• amazon-aurora-mysql — Amazon Aurora MySQL — creates, modifies, and advises on Aurora MySQL clusters specifically (MySQL-compatible engine, Aurora serverless, parallel query).
• amazon-aurora-postgresql — Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL — creates, modifies, and advises on Aurora PostgreSQL clusters specifically (PostgreSQL-compatible engine, Aurora serverless.
• creating-amazon-aurora-db-cluster-with-instances — Creates a complete Amazon Aurora database cluster with instances, handling cluster creation, instance provisioning.
• exporting-rds-to-s3 — Exports Amazon RDS or Aurora database snapshots to Amazon S3 in Apache Parquet format for analytics, backup, or data migration.
• rds-db2 — Provisions, connects, migrates, and operates Amazon RDS for Db2.