In this hands-on lab, you are asked to deploy a secure Multi-AZ RDS instance. After completing this lab, students will have hands-on experience deploying a simple RDS instance, ensuring connectivity to the instance, and enabling Multi-AZ.
Learning Objectives
Successfully complete this lab by achieving the following learning objectives:
- Deploy RDS Instance
Deploy a single Availability Zone, PostgreSQL RDS instance named
secure-db.
Choose a burstable instance type ofdb.t3.mediumand utlizeGP2storage.
You will create a new VPC security group for the instances namedRDSSecurityGroup.- Convert to Multi-AZ
Convert to the instance to Multi-AZ and initate a failover.
- Ensure Connectivity
Ensure connectivity from the EC2 node to the RDS instance using the
psqlcommand.
