ERROR 2005 (HY000): Unknown MySQL server host in aws

Question

I have created an e-commerce site in angular js. And I need to host the same in amazon web service.

So inorder to host the same I created an ec2 instance first. Now after that added an rds instance with a security group of VPC by allowing all ip's as outbound and inbound. While creating security group I specified for mysql and for all connection. Still after I remotely loged into the instance and try to connect to the end point from rds instance using

mysql -u username -p password -h ********.ap-southeast-1.rds.amazonaws.com:3306

I get an error

ERROR 2005 (HY000): Unknown MySQL server host xxxxxxxxx (0)

I created the instance from Asia Pacific (singapore) region since I am a resident of india.

Answer 1

It should be ********.ap-southeast-1.rds.amazonaws.com instead of ********.ap-southeast-1.rds.amazonaws.com:3306

You do not need the port number in the end.