Define external (RDS) service

How can I define an external service (and also its endpoint of course) using docker-compose.yml ?

The example here only indicates how to provide the endpoint url for rancher-compose.yml

How do we go about it in docker-compose.yml?

e.g. do we declare something like:

version: '2'
services:
  db:
    image: rancher/external-service
    endpoint: <amazon-rds-endpoint> 
  redis:
    image: redis

???