无法连接到我本地笔记本电脑上 SMSS 上的 AWS RDS MS SQL SERVER

Question

I created a AWS RDS MS SQL Server database and obviously I want to connect to it from my local pc/laptop. I will share screenshots to show my network settings.

This is the error:

My connectivity & security details:

The Inbound rules when clicking on the VPC security groups related to this DB (I have added my own IP address:

I have no experience in networking & security, so it might be something I've missed.

What should I do to make it possible? I don't want public access to the database.

Update 1: added screenshots of my Network ACLs associated with the VPC that's related to the DB.

Answer 1

I recommend checking that the subnets associated with the subnet group for this database are public.

As you mentioned, it is not safe to have a database publicly accessible. You can place it in a private subnet and only access it via a tunnel. Here is a link for that info. Hope it helps.