title: Static IP for RDS instance
body: <p><strong>I need a static IP that would point to an RDS instance</strong> and I am not sure where to start.</p>
  <p>I have seen these:</p>
  <ul>
  <li><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45069473/is-there-a-way-to-set-a-static-ip-on-an-aws-rds-instance">Is there a way to set a static IP on an AWS RDS Instance?</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://serverfault.com/questions/589140/assign-elastic-ip-to-rds-instance">https://serverfault.com/questions/589140/assign-elastic-ip-to-rds-instance</a></li>
  </ul>
  <p>But they do not answer the question or are very outdated.</p>
  <p>I found an article that shows an example of doing this via ec2 that would route traffic to that endpoint while ec2 is having a static IP - seem like overkill.</p>
  <ul>
  <li>Article: <a href="https://dev.to/wrschneider/ec2-proxy-to-rds-for-a-static-ip-address-11i8#:%7E:text=RDS%20instances%20in%20AWS%20do,different%20availability%20zone%20(AZ)" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://dev.to/wrschneider/ec2-proxy-to-rds-for-a-static-ip-address-11i8#:~:text=RDS%20instances%20in%20AWS%20do,different%20availability%20zone%20(AZ)</a>.</li>
  </ul>
  <p>Is there a cleaner way to do so?</p>
  <p>I need static IP because I have a server with multiple networks behind corporate firewalls, and only 1 network interface can access RDS. Due to the lack of static IP I am unable to add it to the routing table on the server (and no, I can not do anything with the networks themselves, no I can not get IT to make all networks access RDS.)</p>
  <p>Thanks!</p>