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MySQL Databases with Amazon


So I've recently started working with a client that has a Wordpress site run totally off Amazon Cloud Services. As part of some new work I'm doing for them, I need to directly access the database.

I looked at the most recent bill, and the charges I see from amazon are for:

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud

Amazon CloudFront

AWS Data Transfer

Amazon Simple Storage Service

Amazon SimpleDB (however the charge is $0.00)

I see no charges for RDS or for another database service they provide, however, the wp-config lists localhost as the connection info.

So my question is, is there a way to setup a MySQL database on one of these services? I'm thinking no, and it's possible the database is on another account?

Any help is appreciated!


Solution

  • Yes, Elastic Compute Cloud (ec2). AWS does over an RDS service for a managed MySQL option, but you don't have to host it that way. Currently it appears MySQL is hosted on the same instance as WordPress is installed on.