AWS Lambda RDS connection timeout

Question

I\'m trying to write a Lambda function using Node.js which connects to my RDS database. The database is working and accessible from my Elastic Beanstalk environment. When I

Answer 1

I want to thank everyone who helped, the problem turned out to be different than I thought. The callback in the code doesn't work for some reason even though it's in AMAZON'S OWN DEFAULT SAMPLE.

The working code looks like this:

'use strict';
console.log("Loading getContacts function");

var AWS = require('aws-sdk');
var mysql = require('mysql');

exports.handler = (event, context) => {

   var connection = mysql.createConnection({
        host     : '...',
        user     : '...',
        password : '...',
        port     : 3306,
        database: 'ebdb',
        debug    :  false
    });

    connection.connect(function(err) {
      if (err) context.fail();
      else context.succeed('Success');
    });

};