Access Amazon RDS database in VPC from Lambda locally

Question

Is there any way we can access an Amazon RDS database inside VPC from Lambda locally (now in AWS console)?

I am trying to run lambda locally but having an issue while accessing RDS because of VPC.

Answer 1

Your database is not connected to the internet. This is great for security but you cannot connect to the database directly. You can create a VPN connection into VPC and then connect to the database. Or or you could SSH into a Jump Box while using Port Forwarding