title: How to deploy node /express /sequelize backend with lambda and RDS database
body: <p>I have built and deployed a react front end on AWS amplify. I don't want to use amplify for the back end. What I want to do is deploy a node back end with express and sequelize and interact with a postgres database with a lamda server running the node code.</p>
  <p>I can't seem to find a decent tutorial for this. A lot of stuff pushes you to use Amplify and quite frankly, it is terrible.</p>
  <p>I've looked at a few blog articles that use serverless and don't talk about hooking up to a database - just deploying the back end and using it to respond to a request.</p>
  <p>Any help is appreciated.</p>