How to kill a query on Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)

1 · Josh Sherman · July 25, 2021, 10:01 p.m.
Coming from MySQL / MariaDB, I was surprised that I couldn’t kill a query on an Amazon’s Relational Database Service or Amazon Aurora with the kill command. Fortunately, the functionality isn’t omitted, it’ just buried under some AWS RDS specific command. Before we go over that, let’s go over how......