In this hands-on lab, you are asked to secure a Multi-AZ RDS instance. After completing this lab, students will have hands-on experience converting a single Availability Zone RDS instance to a secure Multi-AZ instance.
Learning Objectives
Successfully complete this lab by achieving the following learning objectives:
- Enable Data Encryption
Enable data encryption on the existing instance with the following:
- Copy an existing snapshot to an encrypted snapshot.
- Restore the encrypted snapshot to an encrypted instance.
- Convert to Multi-AZ
Convert the newly restored instance to a Multi-AZ instance.
- Ensure Connectivity
Ensure connectivity to the instance by checking the security group and connecting from the EC2 node using the
psqlclient.
