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Welcome
This is the Amazon Relational Database Service User Guide. This guide picks up where the Amazon RDS Getting Started Guide leaves off, and helps you understand the components that RDS provides and how to use them. The guide shows you how to access RDS with a web-based GUI, with command line tools, and programmatically through the RDS API.
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) is a web service that makes it easier to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud. It provides cost-efficient, resizable capacity for an industry-standard relational database and manages common database administration tasks.
How Do I...?
| How Do I? | Relevant Sections |
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Get a general product overview and information about pricing | |
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Get a quick hands-on introduction to RDS | |
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Learn about Amazon RDS key terminology and concepts | |
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How to get started with the command line tools. | |
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Get started using the Query or SOAP API for EC2 | |
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Find available libraries for programmatically accessing RDS | |
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Get detailed information about how to use the RDS components and features, with instructions for several different interfaces | |
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Learn how to connect to a DB Instance |
Connecting to a DB Instance Running the MySQL Database Engine |
