Getting Started with AWS RDS: Create, Connect and Query a MySQL Database in the Cloud

Hello Devs, In this guide I am going to take you step by step from scratch on how to create a Relational Database Service on AWS, connect to it and query it using MySQL Workbench. But before we dive into the console and start clicking buttons, we are going to take a step back and understand the foundation — what data is, how it is categorised, and why a managed service like AWS RDS exists in the first place. Because understanding the why behind a tool makes you a far better engineer than just kn