AWS Lambda RDS connection timeout

Question

I\'m trying to write a Lambda function using Node.js which connects to my RDS database. The database is working and accessible from my Elastic Beanstalk environment. When I

Answer 1

I have also faced similar timeout scenario. Issue was not doing connection.end() after connection.connect(). Connection.end() should be done before callback.

Working Code:

  var mysql = require('mysql');

    var connection = mysql.createConnection({
        host     : 'host_name',
        user     : 'root',
        password : 'password'
    });


    module.exports.handler = (event, context, callback) => {

// **Connection to database**      
connection.connect(function(err) {
        if (err) {
          console.error('Database connection failed: ' + err.stack);
          return;
        }
        console.log('Connected to database.');
      });

    // **Hit DB Query**
      connection.query("Query", function(err, rows, fields) {
           console.log(rows);
        });


      //**Close Connection**

connection.end(); ***// Missing this section will result in timeout***

    //**Send API Response**
      callback(null, {
              statusCode: '200',
              body: "Success",
              headers: {
                  'Content-Type': 'application/json',
              },
      });

    };