Amazon RDS components
The Amazon RDS components are detailed in the following subsections.
DB instances
Each Amazon RDS engine can create an instance with at least one database in it. Each instance can have multiple user-created databases. Database names must be unique to an AWS account and are called DB instance identifiers. Each DB instance is a building block and an isolated environment in the cloud. These databases can be accessed using the same tools that are used to access standalone databases hosted in a data center. On top of standard tools, AWS RDS instances can also accessed by the AWS Management Console, the API, and the CLI.
Each DB engine has its own version. With the help of a DB parameter group, DB engine parameters can be configured. These parameters help to configure DB instance performance. One DB parameter group can be shared among the same instance types of the same DB engine and version. These sets of allowed parameters vary according to the DB engine and its version. It...
