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# Getting started

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## Creating and connecting to an Aurora MySQL DB cluster

* **Important**\
  There's no charge for creating an AWS account. However, by completing this tutorial, you might incur costs for the AWS resources that you use. You can delete these resources after you complete the tutorial if they are no longer needed.

## Creating and connecting to an Aurora PostgreSQL DB cluster

* **Important**\
  There's no charge for creating an AWS account. However, by completing this tutorial, you might incur costs for the AWS resources that you use. You can delete these resources after you complete the tutorial if they are no longer needed.

## Tutorial: Create a web server and an Amazon Aurora DB cluster

* **Important**\
  There's no charge for creating an AWS account. However, by completing this tutorial, you might incur costs for the AWS resources you use. You can delete these resources after you complete the tutorial if they are no longer needed.
* **Note**\
  This tutorial works with Amazon Linux 2023 and might not work for other versions of Linux.
* **Note**\
  After you complete the tutorial, there is a public and private subnet in each Availability Zone in your VPC. This tutorial uses the default VPC for your AWS account and automatically sets up connectivity between your EC2 instance and DB cluster. If you would rather configure a new VPC for this scenario instead, complete the tasks in [Tutorial: Create a VPC for use with a DB cluster (IPv4 only)](https://github.com/kevinslin/aws-reference-notes/blob/main/services/amazon_aurora/CHAP_Tutorials.WebServerDB.CreateVPC.md).


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