Module 5 – Challenge Lab: Migrating a Database to Amazon RDS
Lab overview and objectives
In this lab, you will migrate data from a database on an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance to Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS). Specifically, you will migrate a MariaDB database that runs on an EC2 instance to a MariaDB database that runs on Amazon RDS. You will also update the café web application to use the new database to store data for all future orders.

After completing this lab, you should be able to:

Create an RDS database instance
Export data from MariaDB database by using mysqldump
Connect a SQL client to an RDS database.
Migrate data from a MariaDB database that runs on an EC2 instance to an RDS database instance
Configure a web application to use the new RDS database instance for data storage