DBS03-AWS100.md

DBS03-AWS100 - Creating an Amazon RDS DB Instance (MS SQL Server)

Cloud Service Provider

• Amazon Web Services

Difficulty

• Level 100 (Introductory)

Project's Author(s)

• Jagan

Objectives

You need to complete the following:

• Setup a database instance on Amazon RDS
• Create a MS SQL Server database instance on RDS
• Connect to RDS database instance from your local

You need to answer the following:

• What is RDS?
• How to create a database instance on RDS?
• How to connect to RDS database?

References

• What is RDS?
• Setting Up for Amazon RDS
• Creating an Amazon RDS DB Instance
• Connecting to a DB Instance Running the Microsoft SQL Server Database Engine
• Running SQL Server Databases on Amazon RDS for SQL Server - AWS Virtual Workshop
• Amazon RDS Free Tier

Costs

• Included in the Free Tier

Estimated time to complete

• 45-60 minutes

Tips

• Having database knowledge is an added advantage
• 750 hours of Amazon RDS Single-AZ db.t2.micro included in free tier