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How Can I Calculate the Memory Usage of an RDS DB Instance?

Click the target RDS for MySQL instance name. Go to the DBA Assistant > Performance page and view the memory usage.

Figure 1 Instance monitoring

The formula for calculating the RDS for MySQL memory usage is as follows:

Memory usage = (Total memory – (Available memory + Buffer memory + Cache memory))/Total memory