gistfile1.ru

db = rds.create_db_instance(
  :db_instance_identifier => "[FILTERED]",
  :allocated_storage => 100,
  :db_instance_class => "db.m1.small",
  :engine => "MySQL5.1",
  :master_username => '[FILTERED]',
  :master_user_password => '[FILTERED]',
  :db_name => '[FILTERED]',
  :availability_zone => 'us-east-1c'
)

gistfile2.ru

require 'rubygems'
require 'aws'

rds = AWS::RDS::Base.new(
  :access_key_id => '[our-amazon-access-key]',
  :secret_access_key => '[our-amazon-secret-access-key]'
)

gistfile3.ru

db.authorize_db_security_group(
  :db_security_group_name => 'default',
  :ec2_security_group_name => '[our-ec2-security-group]',
  :ec2_security_group_owner_id => '[our-aws-account-number]'
)

gistfile4.sh

> mysqldump old_db -u user -p > inventables.sql
> mysql rds_db -u user -p -h [RDS_connection_string] < inventables.sql