Configuring your Aurora DB cluster

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Creating a DB cluster

Important Before you can create an Aurora DB cluster, you must complete the tasks in .

Note For this example, Standard create is enabled, and Easy create isn't enabled. For information about creating an Aurora MySQL DB cluster with Easy create enabled, see .

Note Before you can create an Aurora DB cluster using the AWS CLI, you must fulfill the required prerequisites, such as creating a VPC and an RDS DB subnet group. For more information, see .

Note Additional settings are available if you are creating an Aurora Serverless v1 DB cluster. For information about these settings, see . Also, some settings aren't available for Aurora Serverless v1 because of Aurora Serverless v1 limitations. For more information, see .

Note The AWS Management Console doesn't show these settings for Aurora DB clusters.

Note The AWS Management Console doesn't show these settings for Aurora DB instances.

Connecting to a DB cluster

Note For Aurora Serverless DB clusters, you connect to the database endpoint rather than to the DB instance. You can find the database endpoint for an Aurora Serverless DB cluster on the Connectivity & security tab of the AWS Management Console. For more information, see .

Note For a helpful and detailed guide on connecting to an Amazon Aurora MySQL DB cluster, you can see the handbook.

Note This procedure doesn't require installing the web server in the tutorial, but it does require installing MariaDB 10.5.

Note To connect to the cluster endpoint using SSL, your client connection utility must support Subject Alternative Names (SAN). If your client connection utility doesn't support SAN, you can connect directly to the instances in your Aurora DB cluster. For more information on Aurora endpoints, see .