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Implement Scaling for an Amazon RDS Instance

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Part of AWS Reliability and Business Continuity SOA.2 Topic: AWS

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What you'll do

In this challenge, you will implement scaling for an Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) instance.

  1. Create security groups
  2. Deploy a MySQL DB instance
  3. Create an Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute (Amazon EC2) instance to act as a server
  4. Add data to the database
  5. Scale the RDS instance vertically and horizontally
  6. Verify that you can access the data

Note: Once you begin the challenge, you will not be able to pause, save, or exit and then return to your challenge. Please ensure that you have set aside enough time to complete the challenge before you start.

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