title: Connect Elastic search with remove mysql server
body: <p>I'm new on elastic search, i'm in a project that intent to be a system with a huge amount of data queryable, so the idea is using the elastic search to search from each index.</p>
  
  <p>I try to create a system that support a cluster of elastic search, i know that we can create a cluster of ES nodes.</p>
  
  <p>However me and my co-workers we're worried about data (backups, maintenance) so the idea is that ES nodes using a single instance of amazon RDS (and make amazon deal with scaling the servers) that way we can centralize the data. That is a valid thing to do?</p>
  
  <p>My doubt is how I can setup the local ES server to connect with remote mysql server (RDS or other one) , i try to use <a href="https://github.com/jprante/elasticsearch-river-jdbc" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/jprante/elasticsearch-river-jdbc</a> to make this with no success. That anyone already use ES with amazon RDS that can help?</p>
  
  <p>After investigate a bit more on a plugin documentation i think that i'm understand what i'm missing.I've already configured with successful the river mode (pulling data from mysql server) however i think i'm missing the feed mode (putting data from plugin) that is why i'm not getting any data from mysql server. </p>
  
  <p>Thanks in advance</p>