Launch an AWS RDS (MySQL) Instance and then created a CloudFormation Template recreate the same instance. The Database credentials are stored and read from AWS System Manager Parameter Store.

1. Amazon RDS with
CloudFormation
Launching AWS RDS and creating a CloudFormation template
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2. About the project
This is a series of my personal
projects which I took to prepare
for my AWS certification.
In this project I first launched an
AWS RDS (MySQL) Instance
and then created a
CloudFormation Template
recreate the same instance. The
Database credentials are stored
and read from AWS System
Manager Parameter Store.
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VPC
AWS Cloud
Public subnet
Internet gateway
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Availability Zone
Amazon Relational
Database Service (Amazon
RDS)
Launching from
Console
Launching using
CloudFormation
AWS CloudFormation
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Parameter Store
CFT

3. Launching the RDS MySQL Database
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Password :
8qctywlonjw6a2f9

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Endpoint : simple-mysql-instance.cu7mcvuvp9hm.us-east-
1.rds.amazonaws.com
Username : admin
Password : 8qctywlonjw6a2f9
Port : 3306
Initial Database Name: test_database

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https://github.com/datacharmer/test_db

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CloudWatch Metrics after loading the data into employees database

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Import the employees database from public github

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Take a snapshot and delete the RDS instance.

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Take a note of the configuration , we will use this to launch the RDS
instance again using CloudFormation

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CloudFormation Template to launch the RDS Instance
The features:
1. The RDS instance can be launched in any of the four US regions N. Virginia, Ohio, N. California, Oregon
2. The RDS can be launched in any of the AZ within the selected Region
3. The deployment mode can be either development, test or production with the following restrictions:
1. For development environment the instance class should be db.t2.micro
2. For test environment the instance class should be db.t2.small
3. For production environment the instance class should be db.t2.large
4. For Test and Production environment the database credentials will be stores in AWS Systems Manager
Parameter Store

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The CloudFormation Template
CloudFormation Template available in github location:
https://github.com/subhamaybhattacharyya/awsprojects/blob/main/0-mysql-stack-cft.yaml

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Creating the stack

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Deploying the stack with the following parameters

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As I launched the RDS instance for development environment, the
Parameter store will not be created.

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Now I will delete the stack and then launch it for production
environment.

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As I deployed the stack in production, the userid and password
got stored in SSM Parameter Store

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SSM Parameter Store

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Connect the MySQL database using DBeaver