Can not connect to AWS RDS mysql from SQLWORKBENCH

Question

I am new to AWS. I followed AWS quick start documentation and created my Web server and Database server. I can connect my Web server from my browser and ssh client. But i couldn't connect my MYSQl database from SQL workbench or MySQL yog. I tried connecting it through command line from my web server its connecting. I thought its due to some user access problem and tried changing the user access by query and it says access denied for giving grant permissions. please suggest me the how to connect to AWS RDS from remote machine(any sql gui tool).

Answer 1

I'm not sure if it's proper way, but you can create ssh tunnel like that:

ssh -N -L 6033:RDSendpoint.rds.amazonaws.com:3306 -i /path/tokey/aws-key.pem ec2-user@EC2IPAddress

And then connect using mysql -h 127.0.0.1 --port=6033 -u yorrdsuser -p from local.