Creating an Amazon RDS MySQL DB instance

Amazon RDS MySQL DB instances can be created using the Amazon Management Console, CLIs, or APIs, and the steps are as follows:

1. Log in to the AWS Management Console with the appropriate user privileges and go to the Amazon RDS dashboard.
2. Select Launch a DB Instance, as shown in Figure 10.2:

Figure 10.2: Select a DB instance

3. Select the engine type as MySQL, as shown in Figure 10.3:

Figure 10.3: Select Amazon RDS engine type as MySQL

Note

Free tier allows us to create a t2.micro single-AZ instance for the first year.

4. Select the Production type: Dev/Test or MySQL Multi-AZ, as shown in Figure 10.4. It is also suggested to switch to Amazon Aurora as it is seamlessly compatible with MySQL:

Figure 10.4: Select Amazon RDS MySQL instance to deploy in a single or Multi-AZ

5. Specify the Amazon RDS MySQL DB details as follows:

• • License Model: At present, it has only one license model: general-public-license.
  • DB Engine Version: Amazon RDS MySQL engine supports various versions...