3.7 Task 5—Migrating to Amazon Relational Database Service

Lesson 9. What are You Going to Do?

At some point, your application needs might require features not found in Amazon Lightsail. Fortunately, it is straightforward to move one or all of the parts of your application into other AWS services.

In this task, you will migrate the database component from Amazon Lightsail over to the Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS).

To migrate the database, you will need to:

• Add the IP address range (Classless Inter-Domain Routing, or CIDR, range) of the Amazon Lightsail VPC to your Amazon RDS security group
• Enable VPC peering in Amazon Lightsail
• Migrate your data from your Amazon Lightsail database to your Amazon RDS database

This process will leave you with an architecture where the front end runs on an Amazon Lightsail instance, but the database is now managed by Amazon RDS.

Amazon RDS

• Relational database service in the cloud
• Resizable capacity
• Administrative tasks are automated
• Fast performance
• High availability

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