WHAT IS AMAZON AURORA AND AMAZON RDS?

Amazon RDS:

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) is a fully managed cloud service provided by Amazon Web Services that helps you create, operate, and manage relational databases in the cloud.

Amazon Aurora:

Amazon Aurora is a high-performance relational database engine available inside Amazon RDS.

How Aurora and RDS Work Together

• RDS = The database management service
• Aurora = The database engine you select inside RDS

So when you create an Aurora database, you are:

1. Using Amazon RDS service
2. Selecting Aurora as the database engine

Now we will see how to create a database and connect it to SQL Workbench. We are doing this process entirely with the IAM user login so set up your IAM user and follow these exact steps. The IAM User creation blog is given here, check it out:

https://www.notion.so/HOW-TO-CREATE-AN-IAM-USER-IN-AWS-31506788221880788350ef506fa0a0ec?source=copy_link .This IAM User is created in the AWS root account.

STEP 1: OPEN AMAZON AURORA AND RDS SERVICE

To create a database in AWS, the first step is to open the Amazon Aurora and RDS service from the AWS Management Console.

Steps to Access Aurora and RDS

1. Log in to the AWS Management Console.