DDL on large Aurora MySQL table

[Pearl Goodwin]

My colleague ran an alter table convert charset on a large table which seems to run indefinitely, most likely because of the large volume of data there (millions of rows), it slows everything down and exhausts connections which creates a chain reaction of events Looking for a safe zero downtime approach for running these kind of scenarios Any CLI tool commonly used? I don't think there is any service i can use in aws (DMS feels like an overkill here just to change a table collation)

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