Hi Riku, thank you for your response. I believe I was able to connect using ssh connection in mysql workbench. Will this still cause a similar problem, will I need to do this to connect to python code

Is it possible for you to summarize what you are currently trying to do and what you cannot do? Am I correct in my understanding that you cannot connect to RDS with mysql workbench? Could you please share what code you are using in Python and what error you are getting?

Yes. I am trying to connect to python and this is the code I am using import pymysql

Replace with your RDS instance details

host = 'database-2..rds.amazonaws.com' user = 'admin' password = ' ' database = 'test'

try: # Establish a connection to the database connection = pymysql.connect(host=host, user=user, password=password, database=database)

# Create a cursor object to interact with the database
with connection.cursor() as cursor:
    # Execute SQL queries or database operations here

    # Example: Execute a SELECT query
    cursor.execute("SELECT * FROM your_table_name")
    results = cursor.fetchall()
    for row in results:
        print(row)

except Exception as e: print("Error: {}".format(e))

finally: # Close the database connection when done connection.close()

I am getting the error Error: (2003, "Can't connect to MySQL server on 'database-2.us-east-2.rds.amazonaws.com' (timed out)")

I have a vpc called db-vpc with a route from destination (0.0.0.0/0) to target an internet gateway called db-igw which is also attached to to the db-vpc. I then have an rds connected to db-vpc that is publicly accessible and has a vpc security group called default_ which contains an inbound rule of type all traffic from source 0.0.0.0/0