https://jpcercal.com/en/tags/aws/Recent content in Aws on jpcercal.comHugoenFri, 15 Aug 2014 10:48:28 +0000https://jpcercal.com/en/accessing-amazon-rds-instances-from-your-desktop/Fri, 15 Aug 2014 10:48:28 +0000https://jpcercal.com/en/accessing-amazon-rds-instances-from-your-desktop/<p>After a few minutes of research, I found an interesting solution for connecting to Amazon RDS through a Desktop client, well, the magic formula is an SSH connection that forwards packets to the local machine, allowing a remote connection this way.</p> <p>First you need to add your Amazon EC2 service connection key. Do this by running the following command:</p> <div class="highlight"><div class="chroma"> <table class="lntable"><tr><td class="lntd"> <pre tabindex="0" class="chroma"><code><span class="lnt">1 </span></code></pre></td> <td class="lntd"> <pre tabindex="0" class="chroma"><code class="language-shell" data-lang="shell"><span class="line"><span class="cl">$ ssh-add &lt;your-key-filename&gt;.pem </span></span></code></pre></td></tr></table> </div> </div><p>And to forward the packets, run the following command:</p>