Cross-instance intelligent resource pooling for disparate databases in cloud native environment

A non-transitory storage medium having stored therein instructions that are executable by one or more hardware processors to perform operations comprising:

• instantiating an ambassador component in a cloud computing environment that comprises container instances and databases;
• accessing, by the ambassador component, a prediction as to a number of database connections expected to be used by a particular one of the container instances, and the prediction was generated by a prediction engine;
• receiving, by the ambassador component, a request from the particular container instance for access to one of the databases;
• and
• providing, by the ambassador component to the particular container instance from which the request for access was received, an access object usable by that particular container instance to use a database connection to access the database identified in the request.