Hello, my name is Will Meadows and today we will be talking about how to use automation to your advantage when creating your databases. We will also cover how to add AWS secrets manager into this equation for increased security of your provisioned resources.

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This course is recommended for anyone who is looking to automate the deployment of their AWS resources. We will have a database focus for this lecture, but all of these concepts will be very applicable to any cloudformation and automation tasks.

After finishing this lesson you will be able to deploy your own Secure RDS database using Cloudformation.

You will also understand the role that AWS Secrets Manager can play in keeping your database secure. 

Finally, you will understand the importance of automation and the benefits of using CloudFormation instead of creating everything by hand.

You should have a basic understanding of cloud computing, in general, preferably with Amazon Web Services experience.  Also, RDS is Amazon’s relational database service.  You should know how relational databases work at a high level.  

If you’re new to Amazon RDS, you should complete the following courseware available from Cloud Academy: https://cloudacademy.com/course/database-fundamentals-part-one-1064/course-introduction/ 

If you’ve never created a database using RDS, or it’s been a while since you’ve created one, here is a lab that can walk you through it: https://cloudacademy.com/lab/create-your-first-amazon-rds-database/create-a-database-using-rds/

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Lectures

Why Automate? - Automating with AWS - Keeping Your Environment Secure with AWS Secrets Manager - Creating a Secret - Putting It All Together - Wrap Up