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Provision and manage Amazon RDS for Oracle using Terraform

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This article provides a step-by-step guide on using Terraform to provision, manage, and clean up an Amazon RDS for Oracle database instance.

Specifically, the article covers:

  • Prerequisites (AWS account, AWS CLI, Terraform, and necessary IAM permissions)
  • Setting up resources (cloning a GitHub repo, exporting AWS environment variables)
  • Building the database instance (initializing Terraform, planning, and applying the Terraform code)
  • Modifying database settings using Terraform (changing variables like allocated storage and backup retention period)
  • Cleaning up resources (destroying the RDS instance using Terraform)


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