Amazon RDS - How to Create new DB using PHP API?

Question

In a SAAS app, written in PHP, how to create a new mysql database in an existing RDS instance?

The documentation for php api here: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/aws-sdk-php/guide/latest/service-rds.html

doesn't show any such function available under available operations section at the bottom.

How do we do that??

Answer 1

There is no such option provided in RDS API. When you call CreateDBInstance API, you can specify the DBName but that is at the time of creating a new RDS instance. Once you have created the instance, then there is no provision to create a new DB on it.

I would imagine you need to connect via PHP using ODBC (or whatever that PHP supports) to the RDS endpoint and then create a new DB just like you are connecting to a non-RDS remote DB.