With Amazon EC2 instances, one can use cloudwatch to find how much bandwidth is going in/out. However, this is not the case with the RDS database.
Does anybody know of a way to discover the bandwidth utilization of RDS instances?
I am hoping there is something slightly better than constantly polling the server with the following query:
SELECT * FROM information_schema.global_status WHERE variable_name IN ('Bytes_received','Bytes_sent');
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