How to install MySQL 5.7 on Amazon ec2

Question

How am I able to install MySQL 5.7 in the cloud on Amazon EC2?

Most of the Amazon Machine Instances (AMIs) that I see either lack any MySQL server or possess an old

Answer 1

This is a relatively quick setup of MySQL 5.7.14 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 7 (RHEL7).

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Make sure you have an AWS EC2 account. Note that even though Amazon requires a creditcard on file, there will be no charges incurred for the first year if you adhere to their Free-tier terms. Typically this means a single micro-instance (1 Gb RAM) server running 24/7.

Launch of EC2 RHEL instance

Step 1: On AWS EC2 click "Launch Instance" and select "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 (HVM), SSD Volume Type - ami-775e4f16" as seen in the picture below. Note that the versions of the available or promoted AMIs (Amazon Machine Instance) will rotate over time and this is as of this writing. But the AMI number is shown above in the text.

Normally, I chose Amazon Linux AMI as my distro of choice. I don't do that anymore as it is their own hodge-podge and there is naturally uncertainty of which package manager to choose and therefore the files. So I stick with RHEL now.

On the "Choose an Instance Type" screen, select a free-tier eligible instance type as seen below:

Click Next. On the next Details screen click "Next" to accept defaults. On the storage screen change the size to 16GB and click "Next". Then "Next" again on Tag info. Next comes the "Configure Security Group" screen pictured below:

Accept the radio button of "