MySQL and Aurora us port 3306 for communication.

Actions, Image, Create image will create a snapshot of what you have created. If
you need to recreate something you can use the image to do most of the setup for
you.
RDS: Multi AZ for Disaster Recover and Read Replicas for Performance.

Autoscaling needs both a launch configuration created first and then a autoscale
group.

Purchasing a domain name in AWS:

Select Route 53 in services, select Domain Register, select domain register. Enter
a domain name and then select the suffix type (this will have a cost).
Go into your S3 bucket and you can setup static web hosting on the bucket. Set your
access settings and confirm.
Once domain is created you can set your DNS.
S3 bucket needs to have the exact same name as the DNS record.
You can use Route 53 to direct traffic from all over the world (availability zones)

Elastic Beanstalk: Allows for provisioning of EC2, balancers and others with one
button. You will need to have code behind it.
Under compute select Elastic Beanstalk. (on first use hit get started) Name the
application and set your platform. Once you have finished you can select create my
enviroment.
Under Configuration you can set your EC2 type and capacity.
Elastic Beanstalk is for deploying items to the cloud with limited user knowledge.
You can upload your application and elastic beanstalk automatically handle the
details for capacity and provisioning.

Cloudformation: Turns your Infrastructure into code and allows you to deploy your
Infrastructure into cloud.
To start click on cloudformation, create a stack, you can use a sample template and
then select the appropriate template. You can then setup the usernames and other
information.
Once the stack is created you will have a simple EC2 and RDS created.
Cloudformation: Service that helps you model and set up your AWS resources so that
you can spend less time managing those resources and more time focusing on your
applications that run in AWS. You create a template that describes all the
resources that you want (EC2, RDS) and Cloudformation takes care of the
provisioning and configuring those resources.
Elastic Beanstalk and Cloudformation are free services but that the resources they
provision ARE NOT free.
Elastic Beanstalk is limited in what resources it can provision and is not
programmable.
Cloudformation can provision almost any AWS service and is programmable.