New to amazon RDS, need help

Question

I am new to amazon RDS. I need your kind suggestion on some questions i feel important to me:

1. How I can upload my existing database to rds? Is there any tool it provides so that I can upload my existing database file?

2. How can i will be able to connect the database with my webapp(the app is on the top of codeigniter)?

Very basic questions, hope will get some good answer.

Thanks.

Answer 1

1. Yes you can import the SQL dump to RDS: http://www.koplowicz.com/node/609
2. To use codeigniter (php) to connect with RDS, you need this: PHP Library for Amazon RDS

Answer 2

1. Amazon has a guide for importing data to RDS. http://aws.amazon.com/articles/2933

I don't suggest importing a table larger than 1GB in size using their suggested methods. You need to split the files up for larger tables.

1. The above contributor is a little mixed up. You only need the PHP SDK library if you are using codeigniter to manage AWS their their API. Otherwise codeigniter will connect just fine to RDS without any modifications or special libraries.