I'm looking to have a master and slave DB on the same server, both in an Amazon RDS instance. Is this possible? I'm using MySQL Workbench to access it and am a little confused with the instructions I have seen so far.
"On the same server" is not possible with Amazon RDS for MySQL, because RDS is a managed service. Amazon provides, configures, and has exclusive access to the actual server where an RDS instance is running... you, the user, do not have direct (shell) access to that machine, so you can't do the kind of customization of configuration that running a master and slave on the same server would require.
Other being not possibile since RDS is a managed MySQL (you don't have SSH access or SUPER privileges) it would be also not that useful:
You make a slave replica for scaling out or for backup/failover, on the same machine it doens't make sense
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I cannot reach my MySQL Database instance I created on AWS.
What I tried was to set the public access of the Database to "Publicly accessible" here:
Also I tried to set Inbound/Outbound rules for the MySQL port here:
Honestly I think using "All" ports would include 3306 too. Anyways, I tried it this way because yet it didn't work. I cannot connect to the database via MySQL Workbench, nor can I use a ping request on the given endpoint.
I would be glad if someone here has an idea what I could try else.
This will not work if you have deployed it in a private subnet which has no internet access.
Another possibility is that there is ACLs that is stopping the traffic. Security group only touch the RDS instance, the ACLs control traffic in the entire subnet.
Here is a dev AWS tutorial that creates a web application that stores data in MySQL running on the cloud. It will show you how to setup the database and the inbound rules. Once you do, you can store data or query data from MySQL. Likewise, you can use MySQL Workbench to interact with MySQL on the cloud.
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I'm studying the possibility to switch from an rds mysql (in use and with tables and data inside) to aurora serverless mysql to try to spend less money because the database is used for few operations. I can connect to rds mysql from my pc (dbeaver, mysql workbench and so on) without problems and I can design tables, view data, create users...
Now, I've created the new serverless db and attached to the same vpc and sec group of the first one but I can't connect to it from my pc. I've read on aws guides that there are two solutions:
use ec2 to ssh tunnel requests --> but it's a payware solution;
use cloud9 and connect via terminal --> but organizing a db in this way is not so simple as using a gui client.
For this reasons I've quite understood that serverless is not a good solution for now.
Any idea or suggest?
Thanks in advance
I am new to Amazon RDS, and looking to get answer for my question below and couldn't find the answer on stackoverflow yet.
I have a MySQL Database on premise that I want to synchronize with the MySQL Database on Amazon RDS. I understand that replication is possible with Amazon RDS, but how about continuous synchronization? Say my existing local database has one transaction that has been made, I want to synchronize just that transaction, either immediately or by schedule, so that I don't need to replicate the whole thing to RDS.
Does RDS have this feature for MySQL or any other database?
If not, what tools should I be using? EC2 + ? ?
Or is there any database that supports this so I can just run the database on EC2?
Your best (first) option should probably be the AWS Database Migration Service. This is a migration service for exactly your use-case.
If uptime is less of an issue, you could always do a mysql_dump, move that to an EC2 instance and load that into an RDS instance.
Is it possible to use AWS' RDS MySQL solution in tandem with my current file server host? By that, I mean, can I connect to the RDS MySQL server as I am with my hosts current database?
I've tried the AWS documentation but it seems a bit flaky in this area.
Thank you,
Amazon RDS is a database server, just like any other. If you start up an RDS MySQL server, you can connect to it from anything else that can connect to a MySQL server.
The difference is that you do not have direct host access to the RDS server. Meaning, you cannot SSH into it and get a command prompt.
But you can connect to it from any MySQL client, including MySQL Workbench.
Running our app on Amazon RDS. How does one review / inspect data in the database? For example, how can I get a list of articles?
My app is running on Ruby on Rails and on Heroku. One method I thought of, is by running the Heroku console command.
Is there a better way to see what data is stored in the RDS database?
I use MySQL Workbench to view data, run queries, and so on. It connects right up to the Amazon RDS MySQL instance using the regular MySQL settings.
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Be sure to add the ip address of the computer for which you're connecting to the RDS instance to the access list in RDS. IIRC, by default RDS instances will only accept connections from within AWS.
I was using SequelPro but they don't support ssl. Amazon RDS says something to the effect of having to use SSH to connect your EC2 to your RDS.
This is essentially what was done in the following tutorial which uses MySQL Workbench: http://thoughtsandideas.wordpress.com/2012/05/17/monitoring-and-managing-amazon-rds-databases-using-mysql-workbench/
I had also been using SequelPro before but this tutorial is very clear and I was up and running on MySQL Workbench in just a few minutes.