AWS RDS MySQL Setup | Step by Step Tutorial

Learn how to setup MySQL database using AWS RDS.

AWS RDS MySQL Setup

In this tutorial, we are going to see, how to set up AWS RDS MySQL. If you know how to set up MySQL on AWS RDS, then please skip this article.

What is AWS RDS?

AWS RDS is a fully managed relational database service which is offered by AWS.

In simple terms, AWS takes care of installing and configuring MySQL on their EC2 instance. They offer backup and restore through web UI.

The above-mentioned things can be done by yourself too. However, you need to work more to achieve this. AWS simplifies this by offering RDS.

Let’s jump into action. We will see them in step-by-step activity.

1. After login into your AWS console, search RDS like below. Then click the RDS from the search list.

Search RDS from AWS console

2. Click the Create Database button. It will take you to choose the MySQL version and other needed config data.