Connecting to AWS RDS with in VPC
- We have create a windows vm and installed mysql workbench and tried to connect to the database (rds) which is present in the same vpc (network) and the connection was successful.
- Lets try to make mysql connection over ssh using a public ip of the linux machine. This is refereed as tunneling connection.
Instance Configuration
- AWS db instances have different sizes and purposes
- General Purpose
- Memory Optimized
- With db instance type we indirectly selct
- number of cpus
- RAM
- Network speed
- For free tier usage we have
- db.t2.micro => 1 vcpu and 1 GB RAM
- db.t3.micro => 2 vcpu and 1 GB RAM
- Not all db engines support micro or small instance sizes
