Grant Elastic Beanstalk Environment Access to RDS Automatically
Today, let’s take a colloquial look at automatically granting ingress access to your Elastic Beanstalk apps that need to use RDS resources. When we first started, we brought up our RDS instance and our Elastic Beanstalk instance. The two weren’t connected. Of course, as soon as the instance tried to connect to the SQL Server, it couldn’t. Why? Because the RDS security group blocks all access by default, only allowing in what you specify.…