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Kate Gawron
Kate Gawron
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Kate Gawron

Kate Gawron is a full-time senior database consultant and part-time future racing driver. She was a competitor in Formula Woman, and she aspires to become a professional Gran Turismo (GT) racing driver. Away from the racetrack, Kate has worked with Oracle databases for 18 years and AWS for five years. She holds four AWS certifications, including the AWS Certified Database – Specialty certification as well as two professional Oracle qualifications. Kate currently works as a senior database architect, where she works with customers to migrate and refactor their databases to work optimally within the AWS cloud.
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Creating infrastructure using CloudFormation

Now, let's create a CloudFormation template that will create a full database stack for us. The template we are going to make and then launch will create and configure the following:

  • An RDS MySQL instance
  • A parameter group for the database
  • Security group rules to let anyone access the database on port 3306

To do this, we are going to use a template from within this book's GitHub repository that can be modified if required. This template contains variables called parameters, which allow us to pass values to the CloudFormation service at runtime. This allows us to reuse the same template and create multiple databases.

Before you begin, download the Chapter11.yaml file from GitHub. You will also need to know which VPC to deploy in and which subnets to use. If you have more than one VPC, you will need to ensure you chose the correct ones when creating the stack. If you have do not have a VPC with at least...

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Kate Gawron

Kate Gawron is a full-time senior database consultant and part-time future racing driver. She was a competitor in Formula Woman, and she aspires to become a professional Gran Turismo (GT) racing driver. Away from the racetrack, Kate has worked with Oracle databases for 18 years and AWS for five years. She holds four AWS certifications, including the AWS Certified Database – Specialty certification as well as two professional Oracle qualifications. Kate currently works as a senior database architect, where she works with customers to migrate and refactor their databases to work optimally within the AWS cloud.
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