Is it possible to query an Amazon RDS instance directly from API Gateway?

Question

I\'m new to API Gateway, and as far I have tried is a really powerful tool. For the project I\'m working right now we are using a PostgreSQL instance in RDS. I\'ve seen that is

Answer 1

No this isn't possible. The API Gateway service proxy will only proxy calls to the AWS API. The RDS API only allows you to do things like create a database, delete a database, take snapshots, etc. It doesn't allow you to connect and run queries against the database.

You should look into pointing API Gateway at a Lambda function that has the ability to connect to your RDS database and run queries.