Database Operations with RDS
In this chapter, we are going to learn the basics of Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) and create an RDS instance in order to make a database operation. You can use RDS to create the most popular databases in AWS. You can create Oracle, MySQL, or MS SQL databases on the cloud with scaling capabilities. In general, when you need to create a database, you must manage the infrastructure using an on-premises system. Managing the hardware and infrastructure, installing the database, and then monitoring could require a lot of effort to set up. AWS allows you to select the database type that you want and then create it with a simple button click – that is all:
Figure 8.1 – Click to create
In this chapter, we will create a database and make some operations using Python. The chapter covers the following topics:
- Features of RDS
- Provisioning RDS
- Connecting to the RDS
- Creating a table in...
