You launch an Amazon RDS Aurora DB Instance from the AWS console.

  1. Select Aurora with the MySQL 5.7-compatible option. 
    Amazon RDS Aurora DB Instance
  2. Select the desired DB Instance class. See Prepare the AWS Machine for the Controller for instance sizing information
  3. Select Create Replica in Different Zone to have Amazon RDS maintain a synchronous standby replica in a different Availability Zone than the DB instance. If a planned or unplanned outage of the primary occurs, Amazon RDS will automatically fail over to the standby replica.
    Instance specifications
  4. Enter an identifier for the DB instance. The master username must be admin.  
    DB instance identifier
  5. Select the Default VPC and subnet group. The DB should not be accessible publicly, so select No for this option.  
  6. For the security group, select the appd-db-security-group that you created previously.  
    Select security group
  7. For the database options, you do not need to specify the DB cluster identifier, nor enter a database name because the installer creates the necessary databases for you. 
  8. Use the default database port of 3388. 
  9. Specify the custom parameter groups that you created previously. 
  10. We recommend that you select Enable Encryption for data at rest.
    Enable encryption
  11. Use the default options for the remaining settings.
  12. Click Launch DB Instance, and your new database will be available in a few minutes.