How to access MySQL running on an EC2 instance from Lambda?

Question

Is it possible to use Lambda(triggered by AWS IoT) to read/write to a MySQL server running on an EC2 instance? If so how would you do that? All info I see on internet seems to relate specifically to Amazon RDS rather than EC2 instances.

Thanks, Marcus

Answer 1

You need to connect the Lambda to the subnet where the MySQL server is running. See https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/configuration-vpc.html .

Once that is done, you can connect to it using the server's private IP, as you normally would any MySQL server.