Amazon RDS for MySQL connection

Last updated: Nov 27, 2024

To access your data in Amazon RDS for MySQL, create a connection asset for it.

Amazon RDS for MySQL is a MySQL relational database that runs on the Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS).

Supported versions

MySQL database versions 5.6 through 8.0

To create the connection asset, you need these connection details:

Database (optional): If you do not enter a database name, you must enter the catalog name, schema name, and the table name in the properties for SQL queries.
Hostname or IP address
Port number
Username and password
SSL certificate (if required by the database server)

In a project: Click Assets > New asset > Connect to a data source. See Adding a connection to a project.
In a catalog: Click Add to catalog > Connection. See Adding a connection asset to a catalog.
In a deployment space: Click Import assets > Data access > Connection. See Adding data assets to a deployment space.
In the Platform assets catalog: Click New connection. See Adding platform connections.

You can use Amazon RDS for MySQL connections in the following workspaces and tools:

Projects

Data Refinery (watsonx.ai Studio or IBM Knowledge Catalog)
DataStage (DataStage service). See Connecting to a data source in DataStage.
Decision Optimization (watsonx.ai Studio and watsonx.ai Runtime)
Metadata enrichment (IBM Knowledge Catalog)
Metadata import (IBM Knowledge Catalog)
Notebooks (watsonx.ai Studio). Click Read data on the Code snippets pane to get the connection credentials and load the data into a data structure. See Load data from data source connections.
SPSS Modeler (watsonx.ai Studio)

Catalogs

Data Virtualization service: You can connect to this data source from Data Virtualization.

For setup instructions, see these topics:

To ensure that your SQL statements run correctly, refer to the Amazon RDS for MySQL documentation for the correct syntax.

Parent topic: Supported connections