# Private RDS Setup for Development Projects

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### Configuring a Private RDS Instance for Application Development

### How to Configure a Private RDS Instance for Developing Applications

#### Tasks <a href="#heading-tasks" id="heading-tasks"></a>

* **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 <a href="#heading-steps" id="heading-steps"></a>

1. Launch a Database Instance

   RDS → Create database

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2. **Choose the database creation method**:
   * Select `Standard create`.
   * Select `MySQL`.
   * Under **Version**, choose `8.0.x`.
   * Select `Free tier`.

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3. DB instance identifier
   * Enter `datacenter-rds`.
4. Instance configuration
   * Select `db.t3.micro`.
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**Storage**:

* Enable `Storage autoscaling`.
* Set the **Maximum storage threshold** to `50 GB`.
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6. Click `Create database`
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**Successfully created database** [**datacenter-rds**](https://us-east-1.console.aws.amazon.com/rds/home?region=us-east-1#database:id=datacenter-rds;is-cluster=false)

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