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AWS AmazonRDS documentation change

Service: AmazonRDS · 2026-04-28 · Documentation low

File: AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/rds-proxy.monitoring.md

Summary

Changed recommended CloudWatch statistic from Sum to Average for AvailabilityPercentage and DatabaseConnectionsBorrowLatency metrics

Security assessment

Operational guidance update for metric analysis. No security context is present in these changes.

Diff

diff --git a/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/rds-proxy.monitoring.md b/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/rds-proxy.monitoring.md
index 1628f56ef..bbcd2038d 100644
--- a//AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/rds-proxy.monitoring.md
+++ b//AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/rds-proxy.monitoring.md
@@ -38 +38 @@ Metric  |  Description  |  Valid period  |  CloudWatch dimension set
-`AvailabilityPercentage` |  The percentage of time for which the target group was available in the role indicated by the dimension. This metric is reported every minute. The most useful statistic for this metric is `Sum`.  |  1 minute  |  Dimension set 4  
+`AvailabilityPercentage` |  The percentage of time for which the target group was available in the role indicated by the dimension. This metric is reported every minute. The most useful statistic for this metric is `Average`.  |  1 minute  |  Dimension set 4  
@@ -50 +50 @@ Metric  |  Description  |  Valid period  |  CloudWatch dimension set
-`DatabaseConnectionsBorrowLatency` |  The time in microseconds that it takes for the proxy being monitored to get a database connection. The most useful statistic for this metric is `Sum`.  |  1 minute and above  |  Dimension set 1, Dimension set 2  
+`DatabaseConnectionsBorrowLatency` |  The time in microseconds that it takes for the proxy being monitored to get a database connection. The most useful statistic for this metric is `Average`.  |  1 minute and above  |  Dimension set 1, Dimension set 2