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Lab 3 – Create a database layer in your Amazon VPC infrastructure

In this lab, you create an Amazon RDS database, view the database metadata, create an Application Load Balancer, configure the target group, register an existing Amazon EC2 instance as a target with the target group and test the load balancer.

Task 1 : Create an Amazon RDS database

Task 2 : Create and configure an Application Load Balancer

Task 2.2 : Create an Application Load Balancer

Task 3 : Review the Amazon RDS DB instance metadata via the console

Task 4 : Test the application connectivity to the database

Optional Task : Create an Amazon RDS read replica in a different AWS Region