Launch an Amazon RDS Aurora DB Instance
Note: If you require to upgrade the Amazon RDS Aurora DB instance which is compatible with MySQL 8, see .
You launch an Amazon RDS Aurora DB Instance from the AWS console.
- Select Aurora with the MySQL 8-compatibleoption.
- Select the desired DB Instance class. See Prepare the AWS Machine for the Controller for instance sizing information
- Select Create Replica in Different Zone to have Amazon RDS maintain a synchronous standby replica in a different Availability Zone than the DB instance. If a planned or unplanned outage of the primary occurs, Amazon RDS will automatically fail over to the standby replica.
- Enter an identifier for the DB instance. The master username must be
admin. - Select the Default VPC and subnet group. The DB should not be accessible publicly, so select No for this option.
- For the security group, select the appd-db-security-group that you created previously.
- For the database options, you do not need to specify the DB cluster identifier, nor enter a database name because the installer creates the necessary databases for you.
- Use the default database port of
3388. - Specify the custom parameter groups that you created previously.
- We recommend that you select Enable Encryption for data at rest.
- Use the default options for the remaining settings.
- Click Launch DB Instance, and your new database will be available in a few minutes.