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• Log into your AWS Management Console
• Locate RDS under the Databases heading
• Within Amazon RDS click Create database
• Under Choose a database creation method click Standard Create
• Under Engine options choose MySQL
• Under Templates choose Free tier
• Under Settings name your DB instance identifier as sqltest
• Under Credential settings create a username and password combination and write it down (you will need it later)
• Under Connectivity expand Additional connectivity configuration to show additional menu items and make sure that Publicly accessible is checked Yes
• Expand the Additional configuration menu
• Under Initial database name write testdb
• Uncheck Automatic backups
• Click Create database

• Under Security Groups click Inbound and then Edit
• Add the rule SQL/Aurora on Port 3306 with the Connection of MyIP