I can't enable "Public access" config in AWS Aurora cluster

Question

In the documentation shows that i should can turn on the "Public Access" in RDS Aurora database but I can't see this setting.

This is the screenshot of another RDS Instance (Not Aurora)

Anyone have any idea to fix that?

Thanks!

Preclude

Answer 1

You are using an Aurora Serverless cluster. The publicly accessible option is only available for provisioned (non-serverless) clusters. Per the note at the bottom of the page here

Note: You can't give an Amazon Aurora Serverless DB cluster a public IP address. You can access an Aurora Serverless DB cluster only from within a virtual private cloud (VPC), based on the Amazon VPC service. For more information, see Using Amazon Aurora Serverless.

Odum

¡Thanks! Yes, I'm using Aurora Serverless. If somebody else have this Issue like me, I'm using this to connect with SSH tunnel (In my case from a Node JS client: #21895795 – Deft

Thanks, is that an outdated answer is the serverless option now available from public internet access, the latest document looks like that. – Conjuncture

Answer 2

@mark B Seems now in 2023 public access is available for RDS Aurora serverless, as per their document

Update:- I tried only in RDS Postgress and was able to deploy in both public mode and private to access only within VPC. Both works.

Conjuncture

I assume you are looking at Aurora Serverless v2. How about deploying that and testing if you can actually connect to it directly over the Internet? – Odum

Yes its Aurora Serverless v2, Thx – Conjuncture

I tried it in RDS Postgress and was able to deploy in both public mode and private to access only within VPC. I believe it would be the same with Aurora. Did not try in Aurora as it's not in the free tier :-) Thanks – Conjuncture

Regular RDS is not serverless. This question is specifically about Serverless Aurora, not regular RDS. Serverless nodes have always had the limitation of not having a public IP assigned to them, due to their dynamic nature of being regularly replaced by larger/smaller instances during serverless autoscaling. Testing that it works for regular RDS in no way indicates that it works for Serverless Aurora. – Odum