Connect Laravel App to AWS RDS MySQL — Full Setup on EC2 | Step by Step Cloud Guide
🚀 Connect your Laravel app to AWS RDS MySQL — step-by-step, on a live EC2 instance!
In this tutorial, we’ll take your Laravel 12 project (already deployed on AWS EC2) and connect it to a fully managed Amazon RDS MySQL database — the right way.
If you’ve ever faced the dreaded “could not find driver” or connection issues, this video will fix them all ✅
🔧 What You’ll Learn
✅ Quick recap: Deploying a Laravel app on AWS EC2
✅ What is Amazon RDS and why developers use it
✅ Creating an RDS MySQL instance from scratch
✅ Setting up VPC, subnets, and security groups
✅ Making your RDS instance publicly accessible
✅ Configuring database connection in .env
✅ Testing connection & fixing common errors
✅ Running Laravel migrations on RDS
✅ Understanding RDS monitoring & cost optimization
✅ Bonus: Fixing permission & PHP driver issues on EC2
💡 Why Watch This?
✅ This is a complete AWS RDS guide for Laravel developers, covering not just connection steps but also best practices for security, performance, and cost control.
✅ Perfect for developers who want to take their Laravel projects from local to production-ready cloud setup ☁️
🧠 You’ll Understand Key AWS Concepts
✅ RDS Subnets, Security Groups & Networking
✅ Public vs Private Accessibility
✅ EC2 ↔️ RDS Connection Setup
✅ MySQL & PDO Drivers on PHP
✅ Common Laravel-to-RDS Errors and Fixes
🛠️ Tools & Stack
✅ AWS EC2 (Ubuntu)
✅ Laravel 12
✅ PHP 8.4
✅ Amazon RDS (MySQL 8.x)
✅ Apache2
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