Create and Connect to a MySQL Database
In this tutorial, you will learn how to create an environment to run your MySQL database, connect to the database, and delete the DB instance. We will do this using Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) and everything done in this tutorial is Free Tier eligible. Step 1: Create a MySQL DB Instance Login to AWS and Select RDS as service. Please ensure that you are selecting the region where you want your DB to be hosted. In the Create database section, choose Create database . In the database creation method, Select Standard create Select MySQL in the Engine options and select the version of the MySQL database. Select Free tier in Templates section. You will now configure your DB instance . The list below shows the example settings you can use for this tutorial: DB instance identifier: Type a name for the DB instance that is unique for your account in the Region that you selected. For this tutorial, we will name it mysql-demo Master username: Type a username