Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) is a web service that makes it easy for you to set up, operate, and scale a relational database on top of Amazon EC2. It provides access to MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, and Microsoft SQL Server database engines. In addition to the standard database features, RDS offers the following functionality:
Automatic database patches
Automated backup
Point-in-time recovery
Vertical scaling of a database instance via a single API call
In this recipe, you will learn how to use the Amazon RDS MySQL database service with your OpenShift applications.
To complete this recipe, you will need an application with a MySQL cartridge. Please refer to the Adding a MySQL cartridge to your application recipe of this chapter to learn how to install the MySQL cartridge. Also, you need to have an Amazon AWS account. Visit http://aws.amazon.com/, and sign up for a new account if you don't have one already.