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Setting up a new AWS RDS database
- Connect to the AWS Management console (https://console.aws.amazon.com/rds)
- Click "Launch DB Instances"
- Click Launch DB Instance and wait for it to start.
- Create a disk space alarm and all other Alarms from the table blow. Here is an example:
Setting Up User Permissions
Setting up user permission on an AWS RDS instances is tricky. For example, the following GRANT statement will not work of an AWS RDS instances:
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For a better explanation as to what is going on here see the following: http://www.fidian.com/problems-only-tyler-has/using-grant-all-with-amazons-mysql-rds/
Setting up Alarms
The following are the current alarms we have setup:
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