# Installation on AWS

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/installation-on-aws/88711
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Created:** [May 30, 2018, 1:12am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/installation-on-aws/88711 "2018-05-30T01:12:25Z")
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### Author: ![itsbhanusharma](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/itsbhanusharma/32/180717_2.png) [@itsbhanusharma](https://meta.discourse.org/u/itsbhanusharma)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2018, 12:57pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/installation-on-aws/88711/11 "2018-05-30T12:57:00Z")

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Can this be of some help for you?

> [@Configure Discourse to use a separate PostgreSQL server](https://meta.discourse.org/t/running-discourse-with-a-separate-postgresql-server/46375):
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> Let’s say you’re using AWS RDS, or an existing PostgreSQL server managed elsewhere. It’s fairly straightforward to get Discourse to use such a setup, without needing to grant superuser privileges to anything that Discourse itself runs. Here’s how. Prerequisites Discourse requires PostgreSQL’s major version to [match what we ship with in our docker images](https://github.com/discourse/discourse_docker/blob/main/image/base/Dockerfile#L37); if you try to run on a newer or older version, it might work, but we don’t guarantee it, and if something breaks in the future, you get to …

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