Setup an Ubuntu server may be done in multiple ways but I’d like to share with you the simple and quick steps I usually do when I get a raw machine in my hands. Setup the SSH connection Let’s start with the basics, you need to connect to your server instance.

At work, I needed to import lot of data in a MySQL database, instead of importing from a VPS or a local machine I decided to use S3 storage (that is also way cheaper to keep temporary data). In this tutorial, I will show you how to create the AWS infrastructure to import from S3 to RDS (Aurora) MySQL using Terraform.