So on occasion, I find myself wanting to run SQL against customer databases. Where this gets annoying is that because we are often in AWS using lambda I have no ability to connect to them. Occasionally im able to bully the friendly devops’ and security people to allow me access to a bastion host, which I can then connect to the SQL database. However this is often a painful process if allowed at all, and so with permission I sometimes add a special route into the application allowing me to r...
