Can't connect to MySQL server (110) (AWS RDS Instance)

Question

I have this code to connect to a rds instance:

import MySQLdb

USERNAME = 'root'
PASSWORD = 'pass'
DB_NAME = 'databasetest2'

print "Connecting to RDS instance"

conn = MySQLdb.connect ( host = 'mysql-db-instance-database-test2.code.us-east-1.rds.amazonaws.com', user = USERNAME, passwd = PASSWORD, db = DB_NAME, port = 3306)

print "Connected to RDS instance"

But Im having this error:

 Connecting to RDS instance
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "mysql.py", line 10, in <module>
        conn = MySQLdb.connect ( host = 'mysql-db-instance-database-test2.code.us-east-1.rds.amazonaws.com', user = USERNAME, passwd = PASSWORD, db = DB_NAME, port = 3306)
      File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/MySQLdb/__init__.py", line 81, in Connect
        return Connection(*args, **kwargs)
      File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/MySQLdb/connections.py", line 187, in __init__
        super(Connection, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs2)
    _mysql_exceptions.OperationalError: (2003, "Can't connect to MySQL server on 'mysql-db-instance-database-test2.code.us-east-1.rds.amazonaws.com' (110)")

Do you see why Im having this error?

Answer 1

YOu should check two points:

1. EC2 Security Group assigned to your RDS. Check that incoming port 3306 is open for your RDS SG
2. RDS VPC - you probably have several and check that it belongs to the same VPC where your EC2 instance is located