• Log into AWS
• Navigate to EC2 Services
• Click launch instance
• At the top of Step 1 click: "Try it Now!" for the new launch instance wizard.
• Name your server
• Choose Ubuntu
• Instance type: t2.small or micro depending on scale (probably)
• Select keypair as SparkX Web Servers
• Uncheck SSH checkbox.
• Click the Edit button to the right of 'network settings'
• Click selecting existing security group
• Click the common securty groups drop down
• Select webservers and SSH
• Configure storage: probably like 100gb
• Advanced details: termination protation enabled
• Click launch instance bottom right

Connect to the server using PuTTy(PC) or the Mac Terminal.

Click this button to learn how to establish a connection with SSH

1. Download or open MySql Workbench
2. In AWS click services > navigate to RDS located in Database.
3. In Mysql Workbench
4. At the top, Click Database
5. Create New Connection
6. Change HostName to RDS Endpoint found on AWS
7. Put in the username
8. You can click test connection or skip and go OK
9. Connect to database
10. Put in password
11. On the right side, click schemas tab
12. Right click and create new schema
13. Type the name of the schema, then click apply
14. A new window will open, click apply, then finish
15. Next to the schema tab, click administration tab
16. Click 'users and privleges'
17. Create a new user
18. Click schema privleges tab
19. Click add entry > select schema(your project)
20. Check all rights to that entry and click apply

1. Follow the tutorial at Skip all portions of MYSQL

   Note:
   define( 'DB_NAME', 'wordpress' ); the Schema Name
   define( 'DB_USER', 'wordpressuser' ); the user account you created
   define( 'DB_HOST', 'localhost' ); the RDS Endpoint