Connecting Our Web App With Aurora

Hi! I hope your Mashujaa weekend has been fantastic and full of inspiration! Today, we’re diving into something exciting with AWS: connecting a web app to Aurora. What’s Aurora?

Aurora sounds like a sci-fi name, right? Thinking of naming your child Aurora huh? it’s actually a cutting-edge relational database service that offers high performance and availability at scale. Aurora is MySQL- and PostgreSQL-compatible, fully open-source, and comes with powerful developer tools for building serverless and machine learning (ML)-driven applications. Cool stuff!

What We’ll Do Today:

In this guide, we’ll walk through the following steps to connect our web app to an Aurora database:

1. Create an Aurora MySQL Database
2. Build and connect a web app
3. Link your database to the web app
4. Test it: Enter data through your app and watch it store in Aurora

Steps to Configure:

1. Log in to Your IAM Account
2. Launch an EC2 Instance for the Web App
3. Create an Aurora Database
4. Develop the Web App
5. Make the App Cool (Optional Enhancements)
6. Test if Everything Works

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