Connect the AWS account that will hold the databases you sell through PD AWS SQL Server. The module uses Amazon RDS for SQL Server. Your hosting business’s AWS access key is separate from the database login given to a customer.

Prepare the AWS connection

Install PD Modules, connect the account holding your licence, then install PD AWS SQL Server from its Store. Ask the AWS administrator for a dedicated IAM user access key with the permissions needed for the database operations you intend to offer. Keep the key and secret out of customer applications, tickets and screenshots.

Review RDS management, CloudWatch reads and EC2 security-group permissions separately. The module creates a dedicated firewall group during provisioning: permission to create that group is needed before a first database can be created. The AmazonRDSFullAccess policy includes RDS operations and CloudWatch reads but does not grant security-group creation or ingress changes. The AWS administrator must review those additional actions too.

Save the account

Open System Settings → Servers → Add New Server. Select PD AWS SQL Server, put the Access Key ID in Username and Secret Access Key in Password, then save. Check the server group selected on the product.

Open PD Modules → PD AWS SQL Server → Settings → Test Connection. Read what the module-panel test checks before treating a successful result as approval for provisioning.

Confirm the intended use

Check the product’s account association, region and database defaults before accepting orders. Real database creation can incur AWS charges. When rotating credentials, verify the intended dependent operations before retiring the old pair; a passing read test alone does not establish that every write is authorised.

See the PD AWS SQL Server WHMCS guide for related tasks, or explore PD AWS SQL Server.