Create Custom DB Parameter Groups

You must modify some of the parameters for your database instance.

Any parameters not modified retain their default values.

To create custom DB parameter groups:

1. Navigate to the Parameter groups page on the Amazon RDS in the AWS console.
2. Click Create parameter group on the top right of the page.
   
3. Enter the group details:
   
4. Modify the parameter values in this group: 
   
5. Create a custom DB cluster parameter group:
   

6. Modify the parameter values in this group as follows:

   Parameter	Recommended Value
   character_set_client	utf8
   character_set_connection	utf8
   character_set_database	utf8
   character_set_filesystem	binary
   character_set_results	utf8
   character_set_server	utf8
   collation_connection	utf8_general_ci
   collation_server	utf8_unicode_ci
   innodb_default_row_format	DYNAMIC
   innodb_file_per_table	1
   lower_case_table_names	1