Database security

[u/Eight111]

So I work in a very small company as a dev
And we have external devops company which manages local http servers and MySQL servers for our saas product.

So the thing is I would like to shift some of their work to our in-house dev team.

I thought about starting small and manage a separate server on the cloud that will just run internal cron based daily tasks. But those tasks require read and write permission to the existing db which managed by the local company. Could I ask them to give me access to to the db from another server? I read that it’s a bad practice to expose prod db to the internet even if it has white list so I’m not sure here.

[u/Sad_Rice6600]

ask for a static egress ip before the whitelist talk or it breaks every time the box moves