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 3306 -u username -p

After i entered password and i am getting some error like this

ERROR 2003 (HY000): Can't connect to MySQL server on 'awsinstanamehere.rds.amazonaws.com' (110)

Need to set any security setting in AWS console?

Note: I want to import tables for that DB

Thanks

Answer 1

Same error, but in my case the problem wasn't related to security groups.
I forgot to add an additional route to the route table of the subnets.

See below the 2nd route where the internet gateway was added as the target for all non local traffic (outside the VPC):

Answer 2

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.