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Monitor RDS - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial
From the course: AWS for DevOps: Monitoring, Metrics, and Logging
Monitor RDS
- [Instructor] Next step in monitoring, let's spin up an RDS or Relational Database Service instance via the template. Let's click the link on the CloudFormation page. We have four options. To create an Amazon RDS database instance with a read replica, we'll click the Launch Stack button. On the CloudFormation page, we'll scroll down and click Next to accept this template. On the Specify Details page, we'll scroll down and set a database password and a database user. We'll click Next. On the Tags page, we'll click Next. And we'll click Create. We'll refresh the CloudFormation Stacks page. Okay, now our RDS instance has created, and so let's go over to the console, and let's scroll down to the database and click on RDS. And you'll see that we have two DB instances that were created by our template. So inside of here, these are MySQL instances, and similar to what I advised for EC2, because this is a managed service running on EC2, of course, you want to review the expected settings in…
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