Creating an RDS database instance ¶
This example provides instructions for creating an Amazon RDS DB instance.
Prerequisites ¶
- An
AWS account,IAM user,VPC(or default VPC) andsecurity groupare required before an RDS DB instance can be created. See Setting up for Amazon RDS for further instructions.
Database creation ¶
There are two steps for creating the database:
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.