1sudo yum update -y
2#The Amazon Linux default repositories contains Mariadb packages for the installation. To install MySQL community relese, first configure MySQL yum repository on your machine.
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4sudo rpm -Uvh https://dev.mysql.com/get/mysql57-community-release-el7-11.noarch.rpm
5#After that run the following command to install the MySQL 5.7 packages on your systems. This will also install all other required dependencies.
6sudo yum install mysql-community-server
7#Once the MySQL installation completed on your Amazon Linux system. You need to enable the MySQL service to start on system boot. Also, start service using the following commands:
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9sudo systemctl enable mysqld
10sudo systemctl start mysqld
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12#Once you start MySQL server for the first time, an auto generated password is set for the root account. You can find this password in MySQL logs.
13sudo grep 'temporary password' /var/log/mysqld.log