diff --git a/.changes/next-release/feature-RDSDataService-a799b536.json b/.changes/next-release/feature-RDSDataService-a799b536.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..477beb6223
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changes/next-release/feature-RDSDataService-a799b536.json
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+{
+  "type": "feature",
+  "category": "RDSDataService",
+  "description": "Retry on Serverless Aurora \"Communications link failure\""
+}
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diff --git a/clients/rdsdataservice.js b/clients/rdsdataservice.js
index 9711b0f157..553817bd80 100644
--- a/clients/rdsdataservice.js
+++ b/clients/rdsdataservice.js
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ var apiLoader = AWS.apiLoader;
 
 apiLoader.services['rdsdataservice'] = {};
 AWS.RDSDataService = Service.defineService('rdsdataservice', ['2018-08-01']);
+require('../lib/services/rdsdataservice');
 Object.defineProperty(apiLoader.services['rdsdataservice'], '2018-08-01', {
   get: function get() {
     var model = require('../apis/rds-data-2018-08-01.min.json');
diff --git a/lib/services/rdsdataservice.js b/lib/services/rdsdataservice.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..40266e3a81
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/services/rdsdataservice.js
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+var AWS = require('../core');
+
+AWS.util.update(AWS.RDSDataService.prototype, {
+  /**
+   * @return [Boolean] whether the error can be retried
+   * @api private
+   */
+  retryableError: function retryableError(error) {
+    if (error.code === 'BadRequestException' &&
+      error.message &&
+      error.message.match(/^Communications link failure/) &&
+      error.statusCode === 400) {
+      return true;
+    } else {
+      var _super = AWS.Service.prototype.retryableError;
+      return _super.call(this, error);
+    }
+  }
+});
diff --git a/test/services/rdsdataservice.spec.js b/test/services/rdsdataservice.spec.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ff9ed2e3b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/services/rdsdataservice.spec.js
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+var AWS, helpers;
+
+helpers = require('../helpers');
+
+AWS = helpers.AWS;
+
+describe('AWS.RDSDataService', function() {
+  var service;
+  beforeEach(function() {
+    service = new AWS.RDSDataService();
+  });
+  return describe('retryableError', function() {
+    it('retryableError returns true for Communications link failure errors', function() {
+      var err;
+      err = {
+        message: 'Communications link failure\n' +
+          '\n' +
+          'The last packet sent successfully to the server was 0 milliseconds ago. The driver has not received any packets from the server.',
+        code: 'BadRequestException',
+        statusCode: 400
+      };
+      return expect(service.retryableError(err)).to.be['true'];
+    });
+    return it('retryableError returns false for other 400 errors', function() {
+      var err;
+      err = {
+        code: 'SomeErrorCode',
+        statusCode: 400
+      };
+      return expect(service.retryableError(err)).to.be['false'];
+    });
+  });
+});