Connect a Web App to Amazon Aurora
Introducing Today's Project!
What is Amazon Aurora?
Amazon Aurora is a high‑performance, fully managed database engine that combines the speed and reliability of commercial databases with the simplicity and cost‑effectiveness of open‑source ones. It’s useful because it scales automatically, stays highly available, and integrates smoothly with your AWS environment.
How I used Amazon Aurora in this project
In today’s project, I used Amazon Aurora to set up a highly available relational database that integrates seamlessly with my EC2 instance. Aurora provided the database endpoint I needed to connect my application, while automatically handling scalability, replication, and fault tolerance. This allowed me to focus on building and testing my app without worrying about manual database management.
One thing I didn't expect in this project
One thing I didn’t expect in this project was how straightforward the setup turned out to be. I thought it would be much of a hassle to configure the database and connect it to my EC2 instance, but the AWS steps made the process surprisingly simple.
I completed the Aurora Database with EC2 project in about an hour, which was faster than I expected. The guided AWS setup made connecting my EC2 instance to Aurora straightforward and efficient.
In the first part of my project
Creating an Aurora Cluster
A relational database is one in which data are organized into tables, which are collections of rows and columns. It's called "relational" because the rows relate to the columns and vice versa.
Aurora is a good choice when we need something large-scale, with peak performance and uptime. This is because Aurora databases use clusters. Ordinary relational databases, like MySQL and Oracle, are more generic and cost-effective. They suit smaller databases and less demanding workloads.
Halfway through I stopped!
I stopped creating my Aurora database because I am trying to connect a web app server to my Aurora database. That is why I needed to set up an EC2 instance to serve as the web app server.
Features of my EC2 instance
I created a new key pair for my EC2 instance, because I need keys to access my EC2 instance if I want to add, change, or update how my EC2 instance is running.
When I created my EC2 instance, I took particular note of the "Public IPv4 DNS" and the "Key pair name." The Public IPv4 DNS is essentially the address of my EC2 instance on the internet, while the Key pair is a set of cryptographic keys (public and private) used to securely access the instance. The Key pair name identifies which keys are associated with it.
Then I could finish setting up my database
Aurora Database uses clusters because they work together, so your data is always available. Aurora is really good for the big jobs because of these clusters.
Each cluster consists of a primary instance (where all write operations occur) and multiple read replicas as back-ups. If your database's primary instance fails, one of the replicas can be promoted to primary automatically.
🤝Next in the series builds on this, which is "Connect a Web App with Aurora"
Top comments (0)