Question

How can you create an RDS instance using CloudFormation?

Answer 1

Example CloudFormation template:

Resources:
  MyDBInstance:
    Type: AWS::RDS::DBInstance
    Properties:
      DBInstanceClass: db.t2.micro
      Engine: MySQL
      EngineVersion: '5.7'
      MasterUsername: admin
      MasterUserPassword: myPassword123
      AllocatedStorage: 20
      DBInstanceIdentifier: mydbinstance
      DBName: mydatabase