Cannot create a new RDS database on AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Question

After using eb create to create a new environment, I am unable to create a new RDS database inside my environment using AWS console. It required me to select at least at least two availability zones from a list of four.

whichever I select I get the error:

DBSubnets: Invalid option value: '["subnet-3dbb9564","subnet-b2edb199"]' (Namespace: 'aws:ec2:vpc', OptionName: 'DBSubnets'): Specify the VPC ID and make sure all subnets exist.

Using EB CLI with the following command eb create --database.engine postgres, I get a timeout.

Environment details for: iod-test
  Application name: image_of_day2
  Region: us-east-1
  Deployed Version: 642b
  Environment ID: e-u7q9j5ft2e
  Platform: 64bit Amazon Linux 2015.03 v2.0.1 running Python 2.7
  Tier: WebServer-Standard
  CNAME: iotd-test2.elasticbeanstalk.com
  Updated: 2015-09-21 19:29:37.262000+00:00
Printing Status:
INFO: createEnvironment is starting.
INFO: Using elasticbeanstalk-us-east-1-249541483051 as Amazon S3 storage bucket for environment data.
INFO: Created security group named: sg-7e948419
INFO: Environment health has transitioned to Pending. There are no instances.
INFO: Created security group named: awseb-e-u7q9j5ft2e-stack-AWSEBSecurityGroup-D0EHQ2UNQQWH
INFO: Created Auto Scaling launch configuration named: awseb-e-u7q9j5ft2e-stack-AWSEBAutoScalingLaunchConfiguration-FQZXDALSR4Z6
INFO: Created RDS database security group named: awseb-e-u7q9j5ft2e-stack-awsebrdsdbsecuritygroup-1xo7y4uzxrwgx
INFO: Creating RDS database named: aaaqgf0bktrtyg. This may take a few minutes.

ERROR: The operation timed out. The state of the environment is unknown.

What other options do I have. Is this a problem from AWS side?

Answer 1

I deployed Django application successfully using this command

eb create --database.engine postgres.

Once applied the above command you will get an error as follows

ERROR: The operation timed out. The state of the environment is unknown.

after getting this error you just git add,commit and eb deploy the project. Using this method i successfully deployed Django project to AWS my .ebextensions container commands are added below 01_packages.config

packages:
  yum:
    git: []
    libffi-devel: []
    python27-devel: []
    postgresql93: []
    postgresql93-devel: []
    gcc-c++: []

first add the above configuration and set proper wsgi path and set proper RDS configuration in your settings.py.Then add, commit and deploy.After this add the configuration below and deploy

02_python.config

container_commands:
01_migrate:
    command: "source /opt/python/run/venv/bin/activate && python /opt/python/current/app/manage.py migrate --noinput"
    leader_only: true
02_collectstatic:
    command: "source /opt/python/run/venv/bin/activate && python /opt/python/current/app/manage.py collectstatic --noinput"
    leader_only: true
99_runscript:
    command: "source /opt/python/run/venv/bin/activate && python /opt/python/current/app/manage.py runscript init_db"

Answer 2

I had the same error message as you when using the EB CLI but upon checking the AWS web console, it seems like the database was successfully created in the environment.