title: Simple Connection to Amazon RDS MySQL Database using MySQL Workbench
body: <p>I am just trying to connect to an Amazon MySQL RDS instance from MySQL Workbench on my local machine. I am not trying to connect from an EC2 instance or any other server at this point or do anything special.  I simply want to connect in the most basic way so I can add a database, tables, and some data from within MySQL Workbench.</p>
  
  <p>I have the MySQL Workbench application downloaded and installed on my Mac computer running OSX 10.9.4.</p>
  
  <p>I have set up a MySQL RDS instance on Amazon AWS. </p>
  
  <p>I have an EC2 Security Group that is authorized for this RDS instance. (Should I be using a CIDR/IP security group? If so can you go into more detail please)</p>
  
  <p>I opened MySQL Workbench and am in the Setup New Connection window:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>Connection Method is set to Standard(TCP/IP).</li>
  <li>Hostname is the Endpoint that I find under my RDS Dashboard for this instance</li>
  <li>Username is my Master Username that I made when I created this RDS
  instance.</li>
  <li>Password asks to 'Store in Keychain...'  I    put the Password I made
  when I created this RDS instance.</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>When I test the connection in WorkBench, I get the error:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Can't connect to MySQL server on 'SERVER_IP_ADDRESS' (60)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>What am I doing wrong?  Please go step by step from the beginning for a newbie.</p>