July 2017 valid rhel 6.x version for mysql 5.7 community edition - good for Amazon Linux AMI

install-mysql-5.7-on-amazon-linux-ami

yum -y install libaio
yum -y install numactl

# Note, may need to change version on next two lines, see https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/repo/yum/

wget http://dev.mysql.com/get/mysql57-community-release-el6-11.noarch.rpm
yum -y localinstall mysql57-community-release-el6-11.noarch.rpm
yum -y install mysql-community-server
service mysqld start
grep 'temporary password' /var/log/mysqld.log
mysql –uroot –p

# Interactively type in the temporary password displayed
# Create a new password and put into final '' in ALTER command below

ALTER USER 'root'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY '';

# Next verify hashed password for root, and also version of mysql now installed

select user,host,authentication_string from mysql.user;
select @@version,@@basedir,@@datadir;