AWS Lambda can't connect to RDS instance, but I can locally?

Question

I am trying to connect to my RDS instance from a lambda. I wrote the lambda locally and tested locally, and everything worked peachy. I deploy to lambda, and suddenly it doe

Answer 1

Here's the answer to this with no world wide access.

Allow AWS Lambda to access RDS Database

Repeating Mark's answer:

1. Add vpc access to the lambda function
2. Create a new security group for the lambda
3. Add the RDS security group to the lambda's SG.