Creating an RDS PostgreSQL Database on the AWS Free Tier

I walk through how to set up an RDS database on the AWS free tier. I also show how to use SQLectron to connect to your new cloud-hosted database and run some basic queries on it to confirm it works as expected.

[daveys]

Neat tutorial! Cloud computing in a nutshell: “I don’t want to get charged for anything, make sure all these settings are unchecked, arrgghh delete, delete”

[VennisaOwusu-Barfi]

Bro you're a life saver. I ran into the same network error you did and it's fixed now

[muhammadrashadyusuf]

Thanks i was stuck 12 hour because not configure the inboud rules before, very helpful tutorial👍👍

[manjarcode]

Very useful, the whole guide is very complete and the troubleshooting for VPC inbound rules was really accurate, thank you for you job!

[relaxedswede]

Currently trying to setup a project and this was super useful! Many thanks

[NickMeyer-vt]

thank you it took me hours to realize there is a difference between identifier and name

[criccode]

Thanks for the tutorial, I was able to follow along and set up the db without any major issues.

[Sendilien]

This would have saved a lot of my time if I had found this tutorial earlier. Thank you.

[nareshbandari]

saved my day, I was not giving initial DB, and failing to connect later. Thanks Vincent

[VastIllumination]

Thank you, this is exactly what I needed. Runs faster than the Google Cloud micro free tier it appears too.

[Dumbastic]

Very concise, straight to the point guide on how to create a database on AWS. Thank you very much!

[lisandrofilloy]

I was drowning untill I saw your video, thanks mate!

[davendrajayasingam]

This is great! Exactly what I was looking for, and explained well. Thank you!

[robertwest]

Saved me a lot of time troubleshooting the security group rules. Thanks!

[NostalgicClips]

Thank you so much, no tutorial i found mentioned the outbound rules, I was stuck forever

[ryanprasad]

Thanks, Vincent. I did not see an initial DB name option when I just ran through this.

[garymarshall]

Great work. Thank you. Just what I needed. Create more like this .

[Digital-Light]

Thank you, thank you, thank you! that was hard, but you helped me😃

[williammallak]

thanks, that was simple, clear and very useful. cheers

[thehieungo]

Thank you so much! This has helped me with my project