Connecting to RDS Postgres from remote machine

Question

I have configured an RDS Postgres micro instance for testing but am having problem connecting. I have created a security group and allow all hosts (0.0.0.0/0) by default to

Answer 1

Absolutely there is. I have pgadmin loaded on my local machine connected to my RDS instance. |

I just confirmed that I can connect using the same syntax you used for psql, although the -U was not necessary for me (I still included both "example" parameters though)

I did edit the "default" security group and added my IP (Ip of the machine I'm connecting from)/32 to be allowed, although I'm sure you could get less restrictive than that, but I'd start there and see if it helps.