Adding a Database to Elastic Beanstalk Environment

Lab Details

1. This lab walks you through the AWS Elastic Beanstalk service. In this lab, you will deploy and manage a simple Java application in the AWS Cloud and you will add a new database using Beanstalk Environment Configuration.

2. Duration: 60 minutes

3. AWS Region: US East (N. Virginia) us-east-1

Tasks

1. Log into the AWS Management Console.

2. Create a simple java application in Elastic Beanstalk.

3. Configure and add a new RDS instance using Beanstalk environment configuration.

4. Get access to the RDS database and perform database operations.

Prerequisites

MySQL Server Setup

• Windows users need to:

• Download and install MySQL Workbench

  • MySQL Workbench  will be used for connecting to the database and executing SQL commands.

• Linux Users need to install MySQL. Run the following command to install MySQL on your local machine:

  • brew install mysql

  • Note: If you do not have brew please install brew first (necessary curl command can be found at https://brew.sh)

Architecture Diagram