Using Elastic Beanstalk With Amazon RDS
Overview
Notes about configuring a Django project hosted with AWS Elastic Beanstalk to use a stand-alone RDS instance for its database.
Setup
See Using Elastic Beanstalk with Amazon RDS - AWS Elastic Beanstalk Developer Guide
- In the Amazon RDS Management Console, create a new RDS instance. [1]
- Modify DB instance's security group to allow inbound traffic.
- Add the DB instance's security group to the Elastic Beanstalk environment.
- Save RDS connection information in Elastic Beanstalk environment.
- # Alternatively store the RDS connection string in Amazon S3 (more secure). [2]
- Restart the Elastic Beanstalk environment.
Notes
- ↑ Launching and Connecting to an External RDS - AWS Elastic Beanstalk Developers Guide
- ↑ Storing the Connection String in Amazon S3 - AWS Elastic Beanstalk Developers Guide