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 ## Creating an RDS instance in AWS
 
-This example provides sample configuration for creating a mysql or postgres insatnce. For Oracle/SQL Servers, replace default values with appropriate values, they are not included in sample since the number of options are high.
+This example provides sample configuration for creating a mysql or postgres instance. For Oracle/SQL Servers, replace default values with appropriate values, they are not included in sample since the number of options are high.
 
 The example creates db subnet groups and a VPC security group as inputs to the instance creation
 
 For AWS provider, set up your AWS environment as outlined in https://www.terraform.io/docs/providers/aws/index.html
 
-If you need to use existing security groups and subnets, remove the sg.tf and subnets.tf files and replace the corresponidng sections in main.tf under aws_db_instance
+If you need to use existing security groups and subnets, remove the sg.tf and subnets.tf files and replace the corresponding sections in main.tf under aws_db_instance
 
 Pass the password variable through your ENV variable.