Our Laravel project will use MySQL database, so let's install the database engine now. It comes from Amazon itself and it is called RDS.
This tutorial will teach you how to create an environment to run your MySQL database. We'll use Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for this, and everything in this tutorial is Free Tier eligible. In addition, we'll provide some MySQL commands to do basic things such as create/list users/tables.
Let's get started...