AWS Classroom series – 01/May/2020

Create a RDS From AWS CLI

• AWS Exposes API’s which are used by Console, SDK, CLI
• Installing aws cli
  • Windows
  • Mac
  • Linux
• Identity Information:
  • Refer

aws s3 ls

• CLI helps in automating the repetitive tasks

Approach to AWS CLI

• Ensure you are aware of manual steps
• For every manual step try to find the command
  • google aws <service> cli in this aws rds cli
• Lets try to find the existing databases.

aws describe-db-instances

• Lets try to find database engine versions

aws rds describe-db-engine-versions

• Lets try to create a mysql rds database with db.t2.micro as its size

aws rds create-db-instance --db-name qtcommerce --db-instance-identifier qtcommercemysql --allocated-storage 20 --db-instance-class db.t2.micro --engine mysql --master-username qtdevops --master-user-password admin123 --backup-retention-period 2 --no-multi-az --publicly-accessible

aws rds describe-db-instances

Exercises (From Cli)

1. Create a read-replica from cli
2. Create a Postgres rds database with size db.t2.micro
3. Create a read replica for postgres db
4. Delete all the databases and snapshots created

Pending