3.3.5 Deploy an Amazon RDS Database

Finally, you will deploy an Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) database. Amazon RDS is a hosted database service that offers more advanced features than Lightsail databases (multiple database engines, more instances sizes, read replicas, etc). As your application requirements change, you might find that you need to move from an Amazon Lightsail database to Amazon RDS. Later in this lab, you will migrate your existing Amazon Lightsail database to an Amazon RDS database.

1. Navigate to the Amazon RDS getting started page.
2. Click on ‘Create database’;
   • Select the ‘MySQL’ engine
   • Check the Free Tier options checkbox at the bottom
   • Click ‘Next’
3. Select the same engine as for Lightsail, ‘5.7.23’
4. Scroll to the bottom of the screen.
5. Configure ‘Settings’ (need to match those for the Lightsail database):
   • ‘DB instance identifier’: ‘todo-rds’
   • ‘Master username’: ‘dbmasteruser’
   • ‘Password’: ‘taskstasks’
6. Make sure the RDS database is running in the default VPC. Turn off ‘Public accessibility’. Disable ‘Delete protection’.
7. Click ‘Create database’.