AWS RDS Postgres Connection With Python

Question

I'm trying to connect to a postgres db with python but i'm not sure of the connection logic. I have:

host_name = "my_db-db.cluster-XXXXXX.us-east-1.rds.amazonaws.com"
username = "postgres"
dbname = "my_db"
password = "my_password"
port = "5678"

I've tried using:

from sqlalchemy import *
engine = 
create_engine('postgresql://postgres:my_password@localhost:5678/my_db')
engine.connect()

How do I adjust the engine term to establish a connection?

Answer 1

Replace localhost with the RDS host name.

from sqlalchemy import *
engine = 
create_engine('postgresql://postgres:my_password@my_db-db.cluster-XXXXXX.us-east-1.rds.amazonaws.com:5678/my_db')
engine.connect()