title: Amazon RDS - Connect from DNS record
body: <p>I've been working on my new server configuration for my website and now I'm a little stuck...</p>
  
  <p>How I can access my RDS instance (MySQL) without using the very long AWS DNS address?</p>
  
  <p>Like I would be able to access my RDS instance from: <code>db.exemple.com</code> using a A, CNAME or any other DNS record.</p>
  
  <p>Here's the new configuration:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>Amazon EC2 - Linux Instance - Ubuntu 12.04 w/ LAMP
  <ul>
  <li>for web services like PHP, Apache, Zend, etc.</li>
  </ul></li>
  <li>Amazon RDS - MySQL Instance
  <ul>
  <li>for MySQL database</li>
  <li>separated from EC2 instance for performance and managing purpose</li>
  </ul></li>
  </ul>