FAQs OnCreate a Flask API with MariaDB on AWS EC2

1. What Is Flask?

Flask is a web application framework written in Python. It was developed by Armin Ronacher, who led a team of international Python enthusiasts called Poocco. Flask is based on the Werkzeg WSGI toolkit and the Jinja2 template engine.Both are Pocco projects.

2. What is API?

API is the acronym for application programming interface — a software intermediary that allows two applications to talk to each other.

3. What is MariaDB?

MariaDB is an open source relational database management system (DBMS) that is a compatible drop-in replacement for the widely used MySQL database technology.

4. Use of Flask?

Flask is a small and lightweight Python web framework that provides useful tools and features that make creating web applications in Python easier.

5. Why API are used?

APIs are used to integrate new applications with existing software systems. This increases development speed because each functionality doesn’t have to be written from scratch. You can use APIs to leverage existing code.

In this article, We are going to create an ec2 instance, install a MySQL database using MariaDB on the ec2 instance, and create an API of Login using the flask python framework. Flask is a micro web framework written in Python. MariaDB is one of the most popular open-source relational database management systems and could be used as a great replacement for MySQL. AWS ec2 instance allows users to rent virtual computers on which to run their computer applications, installing and Running MYSQL on EC2 Server(Linux)