Amazon RDS service technical summary

Manage RDS as part of your Abiquo multicloud platform.

Requirements

• Abiquo setup:

  • Public cloud region

  • Enterprise with AWS credentials with RDS access

• To deploy a new RDS instance, you will need a DB subnet group (multi availability zone) in a VPC. In Abiquo a VPC is a virtual datacenter (VDC)

Default configuration

• Obtains AWS credentials from Abiquo (cloud location) to connect to RDS

Entities

• RDS is available in AWS regions. 

• Abiquo recommends:

  • Location: of type Amazon

    • To create an instance → select a DB subnet group from a VDC

  • Virtual datacenter: of type Amazon

    • To create an instance → use VDC subnet groups

Status

• Summary of RDS including:

  • Instances

  • Snapshots

  • Resources

RDS actions reference

• listRDSInstances: Retrieve current RDS instances

• createRDSInstance: 

  • select engineType (DB implementation)

  • select dbInstanceClassType (‘’like hardware profiles’’),

  • select version based on engineType

  • select dbInstanceClass based on the version and instanceClassType (t2.micro is the free tier)

Subservices

• RDSInstanceService

Notes

• To allow only a single type of database, or a restricted list, you can configure the Default parameters, e.g. to only allow MariaDB, or MariaDB and MySQL 

• The Burstable instance class type is the most economical

• For the free tier, use the t2.micro class

• If you create an RDS instance in the AWS UI, then it will automatically create a DB subnet, and you can reuse it

RDS Instance service summary

Manage an RDS instance as part of your Abiquo cloud platform.

Requirements

• Amazon RDS Service requirements

• DB identifier

• Produced by AmazonRDSService

Default configuration

• Same as Amazon RDS service

Entities

• Given an Amazon RDS Service that can be used by a VDC, import or create RDS instances and assign them to the VDC

Status

• Current state of the instance including:

  • used allocation

  • endpoint

  • timezone

RDS instance actions reference

• Stop

• Reboot 

• Delete

• listSnapshot → List RDSSnapshotService

• createSnapshot → RDSSnapshotService

Subservices

• RDSSnaphotService

  • Simple snapshot status + action : delete/restore

Notes

• To enable users to manage an existing RDS instance in Abiquo, you can configure this subservice as a standalone service.