diff --git a/roles/aws/aws_rds/README.md b/roles/aws/aws_rds/README.md
index a1ad86e2d..b448714aa 100644
--- a/roles/aws/aws_rds/README.md
+++ b/roles/aws/aws_rds/README.md
@@ -1,5 +1,14 @@
 # AWS RDS
 Creates an RDS instance and associated ressources.
+
+If the `engine` variable is set to **aurora-mysql**, you'll need to manually create the Aurora cluster first. Typically, a controller will already exist, so something like this can be run from the controller:
+
+```
+AWS_PROFILE=example aws rds create-db-cluster --db-cluster-identifier example-aurora-cluster --engine aurora-mysql --engine-version 5.7.mysql_aurora.2.10.2 --db-subnet-group-name example-aurora --vpc-security-group-ids sg-abcdefghijklmnop --storage-encrypted --master-username "auroradev" --master-user-password "aurora12345"
+```
+
+You'll need to have created the subnet group first as well as the security groups.
+
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diff --git a/roles/aws/aws_rds/tasks/main.yml b/roles/aws/aws_rds/tasks/main.yml
index 989a1781f..5de5486e4 100644
--- a/roles/aws/aws_rds/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/roles/aws/aws_rds/tasks/main.yml
@@ -102,10 +102,6 @@
   register: _rds_instance_info
   when: "'aurora' not in aws_rds.engine"
 
-- name: Debug _rds_instance_info
-  ansible.builtin.debug:
-    msg: "{{ _rds_instance_info }}"
-
 - name: Create SNS topic.
   ansible.builtin.include_role:
     name: aws/aws_sns
@@ -163,7 +159,7 @@
     - aws_rds.rds_cloudwatch_alarms
     - _rds_instance_info.db_instance_identifier is defined
 
-- name: Create RDS CloudWatch alarms.
+- name: Create Aurora RDS CloudWatch alarms.
   ansible.builtin.include_role:
     name: aws/aws_ec2_metric_alarm
   vars: