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# aws_rds_proxy{% #aws_rds_proxy %}

## `account_id`{% #account_id %}

**Type**: `STRING`

## `auth`{% #auth %}

**Type**: `UNORDERED_LIST_STRUCT`**Provider name**: `Auth`**Description**: One or more data structures specifying the authorization mechanism to connect to the associated RDS DB instance or Aurora DB cluster.

- `auth_scheme`**Type**: `STRING`**Provider name**: `AuthScheme`**Description**: The type of authentication that the proxy uses for connections from the proxy to the underlying database.
- `client_password_auth_type`**Type**: `STRING`**Provider name**: `ClientPasswordAuthType`**Description**: The type of authentication the proxy uses for connections from clients.
- `description`**Type**: `STRING`**Provider name**: `Description`**Description**: A user-specified description about the authentication used by a proxy to log in as a specific database user.
- `iam_auth`**Type**: `STRING`**Provider name**: `IAMAuth`**Description**: Whether to require or disallow Amazon Web Services Identity and Access Management (IAM) authentication for connections to the proxy.
- `secret_arn`**Type**: `STRING`**Provider name**: `SecretArn`**Description**: The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) representing the secret that the proxy uses to authenticate to the RDS DB instance or Aurora DB cluster. These secrets are stored within Amazon Secrets Manager.
- `user_name`**Type**: `STRING`**Provider name**: `UserName`**Description**: The name of the database user to which the proxy connects.

## `created_date`{% #created_date %}

**Type**: `TIMESTAMP`**Provider name**: `CreatedDate`**Description**: The date and time when the proxy was first created.

## `db_proxy_arn`{% #db_proxy_arn %}

**Type**: `STRING`**Provider name**: `DBProxyArn`**Description**: The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) for the proxy.

## `db_proxy_name`{% #db_proxy_name %}

**Type**: `STRING`**Provider name**: `DBProxyName`**Description**: The identifier for the proxy. This name must be unique for all proxies owned by your Amazon Web Services account in the specified Amazon Web Services Region.

## `debug_logging`{% #debug_logging %}

**Type**: `BOOLEAN`**Provider name**: `DebugLogging`**Description**: Indicates whether the proxy includes detailed information about SQL statements in its logs. This information helps you to debug issues involving SQL behavior or the performance and scalability of the proxy connections. The debug information includes the text of SQL statements that you submit through the proxy. Thus, only enable this setting when needed for debugging, and only when you have security measures in place to safeguard any sensitive information that appears in the logs.

## `endpoint`{% #endpoint %}

**Type**: `STRING`**Provider name**: `Endpoint`**Description**: The endpoint that you can use to connect to the DB proxy. You include the endpoint value in the connection string for a database client application.

## `engine_family`{% #engine_family %}

**Type**: `STRING`**Provider name**: `EngineFamily`**Description**: The kinds of databases that the proxy can connect to. This value determines which database network protocol the proxy recognizes when it interprets network traffic to and from the database. `MYSQL` supports Aurora MySQL, RDS for MariaDB, and RDS for MySQL databases. `POSTGRESQL` supports Aurora PostgreSQL and RDS for PostgreSQL databases. `SQLSERVER` supports RDS for Microsoft SQL Server databases.

## `idle_client_timeout`{% #idle_client_timeout %}

**Type**: `INT32`**Provider name**: `IdleClientTimeout`**Description**: The number of seconds a connection to the proxy can have no activity before the proxy drops the client connection. The proxy keeps the underlying database connection open and puts it back into the connection pool for reuse by later connection requests.**Default**: 1800 (30 minutes)

Constraints: 1 to 28,800

## `require_tls`{% #require_tls %}

**Type**: `BOOLEAN`**Provider name**: `RequireTLS`**Description**: Indicates whether Transport Layer Security (TLS) encryption is required for connections to the proxy.

## `role_arn`{% #role_arn %}

**Type**: `STRING`**Provider name**: `RoleArn`**Description**: The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) for the IAM role that the proxy uses to access Amazon Secrets Manager.

## `status`{% #status %}

**Type**: `STRING`**Provider name**: `Status`**Description**: The current status of this proxy. A status of `available` means the proxy is ready to handle requests. Other values indicate that you must wait for the proxy to be ready, or take some action to resolve an issue.

## `tags`{% #tags %}

**Type**: `UNORDERED_LIST_STRING`

## `updated_date`{% #updated_date %}

**Type**: `TIMESTAMP`**Provider name**: `UpdatedDate`**Description**: The date and time when the proxy was last updated.

## `vpc_id`{% #vpc_id %}

**Type**: `STRING`**Provider name**: `VpcId`**Description**: Provides the VPC ID of the DB proxy.

## `vpc_security_group_ids`{% #vpc_security_group_ids %}

**Type**: `UNORDERED_LIST_STRING`**Provider name**: `VpcSecurityGroupIds`**Description**: Provides a list of VPC security groups that the proxy belongs to.

## `vpc_subnet_ids`{% #vpc_subnet_ids %}

**Type**: `UNORDERED_LIST_STRING`**Provider name**: `VpcSubnetIds`**Description**: The EC2 subnet IDs for the proxy.