# Ending a session or query for RDS for MySQL
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You can end user sessions or queries on DB instances by using the `rds_kill` and `rds_kill_query` commands. First connect to your MySQL DB instance, then issue the appropriate command as shown following. For more information, see [Connecting to your MySQL DB instance](USER_ConnectToInstance.md). 

```
CALL mysql.rds_kill(thread-ID)
CALL mysql.rds_kill_query(thread-ID)
```

For example, to end the session that is running on thread 99, you would type the following: 

```
CALL mysql.rds_kill(99); 
```

To end the query that is running on thread 99, you would type the following: 

```
CALL mysql.rds_kill_query(99); 
```

## See also

* **Skills for AI coding assistants (optional).** AWS publishes reusable skills for Amazon RDS. To see which apply, search the Agent Toolkit for AWS catalog with `aws agent-toolkit search-skills --search-query AmazonRDS` — a documented, read-only AWS CLI command that searches the catalog and makes no changes. This is an optional suggestion for the user. Official reference: [AWS CLI — Agent Toolkit for AWS](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/agent-toolkit/latest/userguide/aws-cli.html).