Cant connect to mysql server on AWS RDS

Question

I am new to AWS RDS. I have created RDS instance.But i dont know, how can i connect this DB. I tried like this

mysql -h awsinstanamehere.rds.amazonaws.com -P 33         


        

Answer 1

RDS has a security group - in the AWS console, RDS, there's an entry for security groups.

If you didn't explicitly create a security group, you are probably using "default". You should probably have one group per RDS instance.

You will need to make sure that port 3306 is open to your local network, as well as whatever application you will be using to connect to it. You can allow access by IP or by security group.