Creating the RDS Database
The ATC Manager image provided by Aspera includes a database, but Aspera recommends that you deploy ATC Manager with the Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS). When ATC Manager is configured to use an RDS database, it automatically backs up the state store data to that database.
The ATC Manager initialization process contains logic to auto-configure itself to use a remote database if the required configuration information is available. The required database configuration information can be passed to the AMI during the launch process via the User Data fields. For more details on passing data to the User Data field, see Launching the ATC Manager AMI.
The same initialization process can be used to restore an AMI to connect and use an existing MySQL database. For more information about restoring the ATC Manager, see Restoring a Failed ATCM Instance.