Introduction to Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) (Linux)

This lab takes you through the steps of creating a MySQL database using the Amazon Relational Database Service using the AWS Management Console, and then connecting to the database in AWS using the MySQL client running on an Amazon Linux instance, which the student also creates during the lab.

Level

Fundamental

Duration

Course Objectives

In this course, you will learn how to:

• Create an Amazon RDS instance
• Connect to the RDS Instance using the AWS Systems Manager Session Manager

Intended Audience

This course is intended for:

• Data Engineers
• Developers

Prerequisites

We recommend that attendees of this course have the following prerequisites:

• Familiar with basic navigation of the AWS Management Console
• Comfortable running commands on a Linux command line

Course Outline

• Task 1: Create an RDS Instance
• Task 2: Connect to the database using the AWS Systems Manager Session