Private RDS Setup for Development Projects

Configuring a Private RDS Instance for Application Development

How to Configure a Private RDS Instance for Developing Applications

Tasks

• Provision a Private RDS Instance: Create a new private RDS instance named datacenter-rds using a free tier template. It must be a db.t3.micro type instance.

• Engine Configuration: Use the MySQL engine with version 8.0.x.

• Enable Storage Autoscaling: Enable storage autoscaling and set the threshold value to 50GB. Keep the rest of the configurations as default.

• Instance Availability: Ensure the instance is in the available state before submitting this task.

Steps

1. Launch a Database Instance

   RDS → Create database

   
2. Choose the database creation method:

   • Select Standard create.

   • Select MySQL.

   • Under Version, choose 8.0.x.

   • Select Free tier.

1. DB instance identifier

   • Enter datacenter-rds.

2. Instance configuration

   • Select db.t3.micro.

3. 

   Storage:

   • Enable Storage autoscaling.

   • Set the Maximum storage threshold to 50 GB.

1. Click Create database

2. 

   Successfully created database datacenter-rds

   

   Boom! We've successfully completed this exercise as well.

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