Can't ping AWS RDS instance after allowing ICMP

Question

I'm trying to ping my newly set up AWS RDS instance, but I am unable to do so (four "Request timed out" errors).

I added a rule in my EC2 security group for the instance, allowing all ICMP but it still does not work.

I am new to this, so apologies if I'm missing something obvious. Thanks!

Answer 1

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) is a web service that makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud.

With that said, it is not a host that you can ping. In fact many instances of the database product could reside on one virtual machine; the infrastructure behind this is hidden from user.

EC2 security group should work, for EC2 server; are you pinging the EC2 instance correctly? The security rule should be setup as the picture here