AWS Advanced NodeJS Driver is Generally Available

The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Advanced NodeJS Driver is now generally available for use with Amazon RDS and Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL and MySQL-compatible database clusters. This database driver provides support for faster switchover and failover times, Federated Authentication, and authentication with AWS Secrets Manager or AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM).

The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Advanced NodeJS Driver is a standalone driver and supports the underlying NodeJS driver with the PostgreSQL Client or the MySQL2 Client. You can install the PostgreSQL and MySQL packages for Windows, Mac or Linux by following established installation guides in GitHub. The driver relies on monitoring the database cluster status and being aware of the cluster topology to determine the new writer. This approach reduces writer failover times to single digit seconds compared to the open-source driver.

The AWS Advanced NodeJS driver is released as an open-source project under the Apache 2.0 Public License. For more details click here to view Getting Started instructions and guidance on how to raise issues.