Creating a DB instance

Go to the AWS RDS Management Console (https://console.aws.amazon.com/rds/home#dbinstances), and follow these steps :

  1. Click on the Launch DB Instance.
  2. Choose the DB engine: Here, we need to select the DB engine from the databases supported by Amazon RDS:
Figure 5.2: Select DB engine

We will choose the MySQL DB engine option, enable the checkbox for Only enable options eligible for RDS Free Usage Tier so that we don't make any configurations that may incur charges, and then click on Next.

  1. Specific DB details: Here, we need to provide instance specifications and settings such as database identifier, database username, ...

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