Using Amazon RDS for Applications

This lab will show you how to launch a Drupal Open Souce Content Management System (CMS) on Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MySQL as the backend database with a multi-Availability Zone (AZ) deployment.

Level

Intermediate

Duration

Course Objectives

In this course, you will learn how to:

• Launch an Amazon RDS database
• Transition an application to use the Amazon RDS database
• Change the Instance Type of an Amazon RDS database
• Configure an Amazon RDS database for High Availability

Intended Audience

This course is intended for:

• Data Engineers

Prerequisites

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

• Familiar with basic Linux server administration
• Comfortable using the Linux command-line tools

Course Outline

• Task 1: Access the Content Management System (CMS)
• Task 2: Launch an Amazon RDS for MySQL Database
• Task 3: Login to your Amazon EC2 Instance and Backup the CMS Database
• Task 4: Transition the Drupal CMS Instance to use the RDS database
• Task 5: Change the RDS Instance Size