Now that we can launch a bootstrapped EC2 (How To Launch EC2 With Bootstrapping in AWS) with AWS CLI, let’s explore how to launch Postgres RDS with AWS CLI. As in the previous post, we can basically code infrastructure and resources in AWS. This is a step toward coding up …

When you launch an AWS resource (EC2 or RDS), you will have an instance with a default configuration. Then, you have to install software and do custom configuration to bring it to a certain state. Bootstrapping enables you to script software installation and configuration and execute it while launching the …