How do you access an Amazon RDS instance from a chromebook?

Question

I have accepted the "Chromebook challenge." So far, I have successfully ssh'ed into my new Google Compute Engine from ChromeOS's built-in ssh terminal. But now I am faced with the task of connecting to an Amazon RDS (relational database service) instance that a consulting client has set up for me. I have found no tutorials on how to do this. I don't know if I should be ssh'ing into the RDS, or what.

 

Has anyone else done this successfully?

Answer 1

You cannot directly ssh into the RDS instance from a Chromebook. Instead, you will have to ssh into some other server and then from there connect to your RDS instance.

me@myserver$mysql -h myrdsinstanceaddress -P 3306 -u root -p