Getting ready

You will need an RDS DB deployed with backup retention enabled. We are going to build upon the DB deployed in the previous Creating a database with automatic failover recipe.

You're going to need the following values:

  • The identifier for your source RDS instance, for example, eexocwv5k5kv5z
  • A unique identifier for the read-replicate we're going to create, for example, read-replica-1

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