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How to provision an AWS RDS MySQL Database

1.- Go to your console, then select
1.1 Databases
1.2 RDS

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2.- Then, click on Create Database:

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3.- Select Easy Create:

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4.- On the configuration select MySQL:

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5.- At the Edition title, use these values:

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6.- Leave Setup EC2 connection with default values.
7.- Same for View default settings for Easy create.
8.- Click on Create database.

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Immediately after click the Create Database, you will get a pop up window such as this:

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Only close it, then, you will get a window saying your DB is being created:

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This takes some minutes:

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At the end, to test it. Please follow these instructions:
How to test a AWS RDS MySQL db

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