title: How to use Laravel Vapor without having to use RDS published: true description: Learn how you can use Laravel Vapor without having to pay for a RDS instance for your database. tags: serverless,laravel,beginner,web cover_image: https://owenconti.com/static/images/external-databases-with-laravel-vapor.jpg canonical_url: https://owenconti.com/laravel/how-to-use-laravel-vapor-without-having-to-use-rds/

You can use Larvel Vapor with an existing MySQL/Postgres instance, just like you did before Vapor!

Watch the video below to learn how we can connect our Vapor applications to existing database instances without having to pay for RDS.

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