How to connect to your RDS via MySQL-workbench

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:

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