How do I connect to the underlying instance of an AWS RDS database instance(e.g db.m5d.xlarge) to get the hardware information? I am interested in knowing the hardware information of the instance type used to launch the database.
What I intend to achieve, is to log into the instance, just as we would normally ssh into a regular ec2 instance (e.g t2.micro) and run the lscpu command to get the hardware information, but instead I want to do this with an RDS database instance such as db.m5d.xlarge.
Is this possible? If yes, how can this be achieved?
How do I connect to the underlying instance of an AWS RDS database instance
You don't. The whole point of a managed database service is that someone else manages the underlying hardware for you. You cannot ssh into an RDS instance, or run Unix commands like lscpu on that instance.