Creating a Database Account

Scenarios

When you create an RDS for SQL Server instance, account rdsuser is created at the same time by default. You can create other database accounts as needed.

Constraints

Database accounts cannot be created for DB instances that are being restored.

Creating a Database Account Through RDS

1. Log in to the management console.
2. Click in the upper left corner of the page and choose Databases > Relational Database Service.
3. On the Instances page, click the instance name to go to the Overview page.
4. In the navigation pane on the left, choose Databases and Accounts and then click the Accounts tab.
5. On the displayed page, click Create Account.
6. In the displayed dialog box, specify Username, Password, and Confirm Password, and click OK.
   • The username can contain 1 to 128 characters. It can include letters, digits, hyphens (-), and underscores (_), and it must be different from system accounts. System accounts include rdsadmin, rdsuser, rdsbackup, and rdsmirror.
   • The password must consist of 8 to 32 characters and contain at least three types of the following characters: uppercase letters, lowercase letters, digits, and special characters (~!@#$%^*-_=+?,.()&|).
   • The password must differ from the account name or the account name in reverse order.
   • Enter a strong password to improve security, preventing security risks such as brute force cracking.

7. After the account is created, you can manage it on the Accounts page.