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Creating an RDS database instance

This example provides instructions for creating an Amazon RDS DB instance.

Prerequisites

Database creation

There are two steps for creating the database:

  1. Initialize database server
  2. Initialize database and user

1. Initialize database server

For details on standing up an RDS DB server follow the guide: Creating an Amazon RDS DB instance.

2. Initialize database and user

Don't forget to create the database and user!

This is a required step. For details on creating the application database and database user follow the appropriate guide below:


Next step - Shared storage

Having created the database continue with provisioning the next piece of prerequisite infrastructure, shared storage.