Hi I'm trying to connect to my AWS EC2 Instance using MySQL Workbench. I want to do this with a standard TCP/IP Connection. Is this possible? When I open the port on AWS I still can't connect but I can through SSH.
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I created the RDS basically following the terraform example: https://www.terraform.io/intro/examples/index.html
I used existent VPC and when I create an instance in this VPC I can ssh using the SSH key file - cloudeng.pem
The MySQL terraform created the RDS with the endpoint demo-rds.abc.us-east-1.rds.amazonaws.com.
So, I am trying to set the connection by MySQL workbench.
Workbench requires the following:
SSH Hostname: not sure how to set, tried `172.31.96.233` from ping `endpoint dmo-rds.abc.us-east-1.rds.amazonaws.com`
SSH Username: ec2-user
SSH Key file – cloudeng.pem
MySQL Hostname: endpoint dbmonitor-rds.cmufislueksi.us-east-1.rds.amazonaws.com
MySQL Server port: 3306
Username: dbmonitor_user
Password: password
I am getting Tunnel Connection Error
I understand you question correctly you are trying to connect with RDS using SSH tunnel.
You need EC2 instance for tunnelling that is accessible from your machine and you able to ssh to EC2
EC2 able to communicate with RDS mean both should in same VPC
Before connecting to Workbench ssh tunnel I will recommend verifying SSH connection from the command line as it will give you more debug log.
ssh -i mykey.pem ec2-user#EC2_IP
Once you able to SSH to ec2 instance then you are good to go with MySQL workbench.
I wish to ssh into the RDS
You can't SSH into RDS. AWS manages RDS instances and does not allow access to them, except for connecting to the database endpoint.
However, you can establish ssh tunnel from your instance to the endpoint, not ssh from inside of the RDS instance:
How can I use an SSH tunnel and MySQL Workbench to connect to a private Amazon RDS MySQL DB instance that uses a public EC2 instance?
I am unable to connect to the MySQL Amazon RDS instance I created.
I am following the AWS RDS tutorial to connect and entered:
The endpoint in the "Host" on the workbench
Credentials including the username and the password
Port is set to 3306
I get the error:
Cannot Connect to Database Server
Your connection attempt failed for user 'master' to the MySQL server at xxxx.rds.amazonaws.com:3306:
Can't connect to MySQL server on 'xxxx.amazonaws.com' (10060)
Here is the link to the tutorial i am following Tutorial on setting up & connecting to Amazon RDS
Things to check:
Since you are connecting from the Internet, the Amazon RDS database must be launched in a public subnet
When launching the Amazon RDS database, select "Publicly available"
Assign a Security Group that permits Inbound traffic on port 3306 from your IP address (or 0.0.0.0/0, but that is much less secure)
I do not want to the change the application source code where database hostname is mentioned as localhost. Now how can I make the application connect to RDS database instead of listening to localhost database?
I have following aws resources an EC2 Instance(running on windows platform) and a AWS RDS MySQL(complied for linux).
I want to connect AWS RDS MySQL instance using SSL through MySQL client utilities like MySQL workbench or TOAD for MySQL.
My questions
Are SSL CA, CERT Key files and SSL Cipher information located on AWS RDS MySQL instance?
How to connect to AWS RDS MySQL to download these files.
Are these files are required for above scenario?
Can I use SSH Client to connect AWS RDS (MYSQL)?
I have seen blogs/post but there EC2 instance is LINUX based.
My understanding SSH is used to remotely connect Linux machines.
Is there anyother way to connect AWS RDS MySQL securly?
RDS server doesn't served SSH.
However, you can create a SSH tunnel to EC2 instance that permit to access the RDS instance. You may also enable compression within the connection using ssh tunnel. Quite useful if you want to upload/download large data set from RDS.
# E.g. EC2 instance = ec2servername
# Create a ssh tunnel to RDS , access through local port 5678
ssh -C -o CompressionLevel=9 -N -L 5678:<your-rds-fqdn>:3306 <ec2username>#ec2servername -i ec2_private_key.pem
# mysql client connection
mysql -u <rdsusername> -p <database name> -h 127.0.0.1 -P 5678
You can download the SSL certificates here: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/UsingWithRDS.SSL.html
You cannot SSH into an RDS instance as it is managed by AWS and you aren't given SSH access.
In addition to using SSL you should configure the Security Groups in your VPC such that only servers within your VPC can access the RDS instance.
If you are using MySQL workbench then its pretty straight forward. Steps
1. Click on new MySQL connection.
2. Give any Connection name for your reference
3. In hostname field, add the endpoint URL which you can get from AWS RDS console. (dont add :3306, its default)
4. In username field, add the username you had added while creating RDS instance.
5. Keep other params as it is and click on Test Connection.It will ask for password which you had added while creating RDS instance.
6. If all the input params are correct, you are connected to the database
You cannot SSH into an RDS instance as it is managed by AWS and you aren't given SSH access.
but we have an option to create a SSH tunnel to EC2 instance that permit to access the RDS instance.
i got reference from this video, thought it may help other connect AWS RDS Db instances from our local machine using an Amazon EC2 "SSH Tunnel"
I setup an AWS RDS MySQL instance and was able to connect to it successfully using MySQL Workbench.
However when I use StrongLoop Arc to Test Connection to this MySQL instance using the same credentials, I keep getting a Handshake inactivity timeout error.
Any idea why MySQL Workbench can connect to this MySQL instance but StrongLoop can't?