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  • 1. Download Kaytu CLI
  • 2. Login to kaytu CLI
  • 3. Login to AWS CLI
  • 4. Run RDS Optimizer Check
  1. Enterprise Features
  2. Workload Optimizer

How to optimize AWS RDS

1. Download Kaytu CLI

MacOS

brew tap kaytu-io/cli-tap && brew install kaytu

Linux

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kaytu-io/kaytu/main/scripts/install.sh | sh

Windows (and all Binaries) Download Windows (Linux, and MacOS) binary from

2. Login to kaytu CLI

kaytu login

3. Login to AWS CLI

If you don't have AWS CLI, and install it.

Run to confirm you are logged in to the correct account

aws sts get-caller-identity

4. Run RDS Optimizer Check

kaytu optimize rds-instance

Optimizer checks will interact with CloudWatch to understand utilization.

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