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# Installation

Follow this guide to install P0 on an AWS-RDS-managed MySQL instance or cluster. P0 treats individual MySQL instances, MariaDB instances, and Aurora MySQL clusters in the same manner.

### Prerequisites

Before you begin, ensure you have

* Admin access to the database instance (or cluster)
* IAM authentication enabled on the database instance (or cluster)
* AWS permissions that allow you to create IAM policies, and grant those policies to roles
* AWS permissions that allow you to create ECR repositories, add images to that repository, create Lambda functions, and create VPC endpoints and security groups within the database's VPC
* A P0 [AWS RDS](/integrations/resource-integrations/aws/managed-services/aws-rds.md) integration installed on the VPC that hosts the database

### Installation

Follow these steps to install P0 on a MySQL instance or cluster

#### Via the P0 app

1. Navigate to **Integrations > MySQL** in the P0 app
2. Select the **Access management** component
3. Click **Add instance**
4. Enter a unique identifier for the instance (this can be any value you like)
5. Choose **AWS RDS** hosting
   1. Enter the ARN of the AWS RDS instance
   2. Select the installed P0 AWS RDS VPC integration
6. Click **Next**
7. Run the supplied SQL command in the MySQL instance
8. Run the supplied Terraform to deploy the P0 connector
9. Click **Next**
10. If desired, configure the port and default database for this instance
11. Click **Finish**

#### Via the P0 Terraform provider

1. Run the following SQL in the Aurora MySQL database to create the admin user.

   ```sql
   CREATE USER p0_iam_manager IDENTIFIED WITH AWSAuthenticationPlugin AS 'RDS';
   GRANT CREATE USER, CREATE ROLE ON *.* TO p0_iam_manager;
   GRANT ROLE_ADMIN ON *.* TO p0_iam_manager;
   GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON `%`.* TO p0_iam_manager WITH GRANT OPTION;
   ```
2. Ensure you have a configure P0 Terraform provider (follow the provider docs at <https://registry.terraform.io/providers/p0-security/p0/latest/docs> to configure).
3. Use the example module definition at <https://registry.terraform.io/providers/p0-security/p0/latest/docs/resources/mysql> to configure P0's access to your environment.
4. Run `terraform init` and `terraform apply`.


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