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Amazon Aurora tutorials and sample code

The Amazon documentation includes several tutorials that guide you through common Amazon Aurora use cases. Many of these tutorials show you how to use Amazon Aurora with other Amazon services. In addition, you can access sample code in .

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You can find more tutorials at the Amazon Database Blog. For information about training, see Amazon Training and Certification.

Tutorials in this guide

The following tutorials in this guide show you how to perform common tasks with Amazon Aurora:

Tutorials in other Amazon guides

The following tutorials in other Amazon guides show you how to perform common tasks with Amazon Aurora:

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Some of the tutorials use Amazon RDS DB instances, but they can be adapted to use Aurora DB clusters.

  • Tutorial: Aurora Serverless in the Amazon AppSync Developer Guide

    Learn how to use Amazon AppSync to provide a data source for running SQL commands against Aurora Serverless DB clusters with the Data API enabled. You can use Amazon AppSync resolvers to run SQL statements against the Data API with GraphQL queries, mutations, and subscriptions.

  • Tutorial: Rotating a Secret for an Amazon Database in the Amazon Secrets Manager User Guide

    Learn how to create a secret for an Amazon database and configure the secret to rotate on a schedule. You trigger one rotation manually, and then confirm that the new version of the secret continues to provide access.

  • Tutorials and samples in the Amazon Elastic Beanstalk Developer Guide

    Learn how to deploy applications that use Amazon RDS databases with Amazon Elastic Beanstalk.

  • Using Data from an Amazon RDS Database to Create an Amazon ML Datasource in the Amazon Machine Learning Developer Guide

    Learn how to create an Amazon Machine Learning (Amazon ML) datasource object from data stored in a MySQL DB instance.

  • Manually Enabling Access to an Amazon RDS Instance in a VPC in the Amazon QuickSight User Guide

    Learn how to enable QuickSight access to an Amazon RDS DB instance in a VPC.

Tutorials and sample code in GitHub

The following tutorials and sample code in GitHub show you how to perform common tasks with Amazon Aurora:

Amazon Database Cookbook

The Amazon DB Cookbook is a comprehensive database guide that teaches you how to build, deploy, and manage high-performing, cost-effective database solutions on Amazon. Step-by-step tutorials guide you through creating production-ready applications and deploying the apps with CloudFormation templates. You'll learn essential Amazon services as you build infrastructure, implement networking, develop serverless architectures, manage databases, and integrate generative AI. Learn Amazon best practices that help you create secure, scalable solutions while optimizing costs. Whether you're new to Amazon or an experienced professional, the Amazon DB Cookbook helps you develop skills to solve common database challenges and implement enterprise-ready solutions. The cookbook includes the following sections:

  • Getting started with Amazon for DB applications – Learn Amazon fundamentals like how to set up your account and Jupyter Notebook environment.

  • Database fundamentals – Explore essential database concepts and compare Amazon database services to choose the right solution for your workloads.

  • Serverless web app with Amazon Aurora – Build an end-to-end retail application with Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL that handles inventory, orders, and customer data.

  • Monitoring and observability – Set up performance tracking and configure alerts to identify potential database issues before they impact your applications.

  • Scaling with Amazon Aurora – Learn to build resilient multi-Region deployments with Aurora DSQL, and how to scale your databases up for more processing power or out across multiple instances for greater capacity.

  • Optimization performance and cost – Optimize your database performance and reduce costs with proven tuning strategies.

  • Journey to Amazon purpose-built databases – Build a secure, reliable infrastructure that scales your generative AI solutions and data-driven applications from prototype to enterprise deployment.

  • GenAI applications with RAG – Build an intelligent search system for insurance and healthcare documents that uses Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) to deliver accurate, context-aware results.

Amazon workshop and lab content portal for Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL

The following collection of workshops and other hands-on content helps you to gain an understanding of the Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL features and capabilities:

Amazon workshop and lab content portal for Amazon Aurora MySQL

The following collection of workshops and other hands-on content helps you to gain an understanding of the Amazon Aurora MySQL features and capabilities:

Using this service with an Amazon SDK

Amazon software development kits (SDKs) are available for many popular programming languages. Each SDK provides an API, code examples, and documentation that make it easier for developers to build applications in their preferred language.

SDK documentation

Amazon CLI

Amazon SDK for Java

Amazon SDK for JavaScript

Amazon SDK for .NET

Amazon SDK for PHP

Amazon Tools for PowerShell

Amazon SDK for Python (Boto3)

Amazon SDK for Ruby

Amazon SDK for SAP ABAP

For examples specific to this service, see Code examples for Aurora using Amazon SDKs.