Final thoughts on databases

[00:00 - 01:04] In this module, we've learned the various ways to host a database, how to create and configure an RDS instance, how to test connectivity to that RDS instance, how to configure Django to connect to the RDS instance, and how to initialize the Django model schema and create a super user so that you can log into the admin. But, and this is a pretty big but, what we've configured is an insecure setup. Our RDS instance is exposed to the internet, so anyone can connect to this database, even though they may need a username and password to log in, there are numerous exploits that could be used to hack into the database. In this lesson, we learned the steps to create and configure the RDS instance, which is extremely valuable. However, we'll need to learn how to secure it properly. So, in the next lesson, we'll clean up our AWS environment, and we'll build a secure environment step by step.