Today's post will be pretty short, but at least it will be useful, I promise. 
After a lot of failed port forwarding with our DBA (- ofc, I'm not a shell wizard yet), I tried to find a simpler way to connect to our RDS, which is placed in a VPC. 
Here is the generalized config, which gave us the proper results:
Step 1: Switch the connection type to Standard TCP/IP over SSH
Step 2: Fill out your config:
<img src="https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1598898951637/CXcOF9gIT.png" alt="rds-example-connection.png" />
And that's it. 
(I find it much easier than doing the port forward magic 😬)

Today's post will be pretty short, but at least it will be useful, I promise. 
After a lot of failed port forwarding with our DBA (- ofc, I'm not a shell wizard yet), I tried to find a simpler way to connect to our RDS, which is placed in a VPC. 

Here is the generalized config, which gave us the proper results:

Step 1: Switch the connection type to **Standard TCP/IP over SSH**

Step 2: Fill out your config:

![rds-example-connection.png](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1598898951637/CXcOF9gIT.png)

And that's it. 
(I find it much easier than doing the port forward magic 😬)




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