Amazon Web Services, along with compute, offers a relational database service (RDS). The RDS makes it easier to set up, scale, and operate relational databases in the cloud.
Creating an RDS instance
Getting ready
Before we get started with Amazon RDS, we need to familiarize ourselves with a few terms:
- DB instance: A DB instance is a basic component of Amazon RDS. It's an isolated database engine in the cloud. It can be accessed using standard clients, provided our security group allows for it. Amazon RDS has different offerings in terms of memory and computation power, which is determined by its DBInstance class.
- Regions and availability zones: AWS offers various hosting options across the globe called regions and multiple...