RDS Database creationΒΆ
We'll create the PostgreSQL server in RDS.
To do this, we'll go to Services -> RDS and find a section called Create database and click on it, then we'll be able to choose the database we want.
We'll select the PostgreSQL
Now you'll be able to configure it as you want, but the default settings should suffice. If you checked the Only enable options eligible for RDS Free Usage Tier in the previous step, your only option will be to use db.t2.micro instance class.
We'll need to fill out the settings though:
Now, on the next step, we'll want to put the database on our default VPC and select Public accessibility as No.
Specify the database name:
You can also setup more things like backups, monitoring, performance insights etc, but currently we don't need that.
Now, when clicking on Create database, it will redirect to a page like this and it will take a few minutes to create the database.
After some time you'll see that it is available:
