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

I had the same issue, but i didn’t want to use Red Hat or any other OS than Amazon Linux AMI. So, here is the process to install MySQL 5.7 and upgrade an older version.

Short path (without screenshots)

wget https://dev.mysql.com/get/mysql57-community-release-el6-11.noarch.rpm
yum localinstall mysql57-community-release-el6-11.noarch.rpm
yum remove mysql55 mysql55-common mysql55-libs mysql55-server
yum install mysql-community-server
service mysqld restart
mysql_upgrade -p

Long path (with screenshots)

First of all, just to validate you can check the current version.

Then, you should download the repo for EL6 11

wget https://dev.mysql.com/get/mysql57-community-release-el6-11.noarch.rpm

Next, make a localinstall:

yum localinstall mysql57-community-release-el6-11.noarch.rpm

This is probably the key for a successful installation. You should remove the previous packages, regarding to MySQL 5.5

yum remove mysql55 mysql55-common mysql55-libs mysql55-server

Finally, you can install MySQL 5.7

yum install mysql-community-server

Restart the MySQL Server and upgrade your database

service mysqld restart
mysql_upgrade -p

You can validate you installation by authenticating to MySQL