Before you begin, make sure that you have completed the following prerequisites.
In Amazon RDS (MySQL), make sure you have:
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Noted your database username and password.
Important
As a best practice, provide Amazon Q with read-only database credentials.
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Copied your database host URL, port, and instance. You can find this information on the Amazon RDS console.
In your AWS account, make sure you have:
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Created a Amazon Q Business application.
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Created an IAM role for your data source and, if using the Amazon Q API, noted the ARN of the IAM role.
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Stored your Amazon RDS (MySQL) authentication credentials in an AWS Secrets Manager secret and, if using the Amazon Q API, noted the ARN of the secret.
Note
If you’re a console user, you can create the IAM role and Secrets Manager secret as part of configuring your Amazon Q application on the console.
For a list of things to consider while configuring your data source, see Data source connector configuration best practices.
