Install MySQL on Amazon Linux in AWS EC2

4 min readAug 31, 2019

In this post, we will see how to install MySQL server on AWS EC2 Amazon Linux 2 and configure the security group to access from your desktop

The Amazon Linux AMI is a supported and maintained Linux image provided by Amazon Web Services for use on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). It is designed to provide a stable, secure, and high-performance execution environment for applications running on Amazon EC2. It supports the latest EC2 instance type features and includes packages that enable easy integration with AWS. Amazon Web Services provides ongoing security and maintenance updates to all instances running the Amazon Linux AMI. The Amazon Linux AMI is provided at no additional charge to Amazon EC2 users.

Steps to Create Amazon Linux Instance

Launch a new AWS EC2 Instance Wizard
Choose with Amazon Linux 2 AMI x64
Select t2.micro which is free tire eligible
Configure the VPC, Network etc ( I go with default )
Choose Storage, I choose 8 GiB Magnetic Standard
Add Tags if required
Then create the security group to allow port 22 ( SSH / SFTP ) and 3306 (MySQL Default port)
Choose the pem file and click Launch

Install MySQL on Amazon Linux 2

Once the Instance is launched wait for the initialization to complete

SSH into the newly created machine with the pem key ( I am using Bitvise SSH client from my windows )

Do the yum update

Installed:
  kernel.x86_64 0:4.14.138-114.102.amzn2

Dependency Installed:
  json-c.x86_64 0:0.11-4.amzn2.0.3

Updated:
  amazon-linux-extras.noarch 0:1.6.9-1.amzn2                                      amazon-linux-extras-yum-plugin.noarch 0:1.6.9-1.amzn2
  amazon-ssm-agent.x86_64 0:2.3.662.0-1.amzn2                                     curl.x86_64 0:7.61.1-11.amzn2.0.2
  ec2-hibinit-agent.noarch 0:1.0.0-4.amzn2                                        ec2-instance-connect.noarch 0:1.1-10.amzn2
  libcurl.x86_64 0:7.61.1-11.amzn2.0.2                                            libssh2.x86_64 0:1.4.3-12.amzn2.2.1
  nss-softokn.x86_64 0:3.36.0-5.amzn2.0.1                                         nss-softokn-freebl.x86_64 0:3.36.0-5.amzn2.0.1
  systemtap-runtime.x86_64 0:4.1-0.20190208git4e76869512d2.amzn2.0.2

Complete!sudo wget https://dev.mysql.com/get/mysql57-community-release-el7-11.noarch.rpm
sudo yum localinstall mysql57-community-release-el7-11.noarch.rpm 
sudo yum install mysql-community-server
 sudo systemctl start mysqld.service=====================================================================================================================================================
 Package                                     Arch                   Version                                  Repository                         Size
=====================================================================================================================================================
Installing:
 mysql-community-libs                        x86_64                 5.7.27-1.el7                             mysql57-community                 2.2 M
     replacing  mariadb-libs.x86_64 1:5.5.62-1.amzn2.0.1
 mysql-community-libs-compat                 x86_64                 5.7.27-1.el7                             mysql57-community                 2.0 M
     replacing  mariadb-libs.x86_64 1:5.5.62-1.amzn2.0.1
 mysql-community-server                      x86_64                 5.7.27-1.el7                             mysql57-community                 165 M
Installing for dependencies:
 mysql-community-client                      x86_64                 5.7.27-1.el7                             mysql57-community                  24 M
 mysql-community-common                      x86_64                 5.7.27-1.el7                             mysql57-community                 275 k
 ncurses-compat-libs                         x86_64                 6.0-8.20170212.amzn2.1.2                 amzn2-core                        314 k

Transaction Summary
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Install  3 Packages (+3 Dependent packages)

To get the default password

sudo grep 'temporary password' /var/log/mysqld.log
2019-08-31T09:30:06.527923Z 1 [Note] A temporary password is generated for root@localhost: 0+,orlwf3ra

Change the password

mysql_secure_installation

Remove anonymous users? (Press y|Y for Yes, any other key for No) : y
Success.


Normally, root should only be allowed to connect from
'localhost'. This ensures that someone cannot guess at
the root password from the network.

Disallow root login remotely? (Press y|Y for Yes, any other key for No) : n

 ... skipping.
By default, MySQL comes with a database named 'test' that
anyone can access. This is also intended only for testing,
and should be removed before moving into a production
environment.


Remove test database and access to it? (Press y|Y for Yes, any other key for No) : y
 - Dropping test database...
Success.

 - Removing privileges on test database...
Success.

Reloading the privilege tables will ensure that all changes
made so far will take effect immediately.

Reload privilege tables now? (Press y|Y for Yes, any other key for No) : y
Success.

All done!

Create user and grant remote access

Add a new line in my.cnf file

vi /etc/my.cnf 
bind-address=YOUR-SERVER-IP

Restart service

systemctl restart mysql

Then connect to MySQL and create user and grand all privilege to all database

[ec2-user@ip- etc]$  mysql -u root -p
Enter password:
mysql> GRANT ALL ON *.* TO vignesh@'%' IDENTIFIED BY "Vignesh@123";
Query OK, 0 rows affected, 1 warning (0.00 sec)

mysql> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

Connect to MySQL using MySQL Workbench

Connect to Database with user vignesh and password Vignesh and the Host as Amazon Linux IP

Originally published at asvignesh.