nginx-mysql-proxy

proxy.nginx.conf

#sudo wget http://nginx.org/download/nginx-1.9.12.tar.gz
#sudo tar -xvzf nginx-1.9.12.tar.gz 
#cd nginx-1.9.12
#sudo apt-get install -y build-essential libpcre3 libpcre3-dev zlib1g-dev
#sudo ./configure --with-stream && sudo make && sudo make install 

# /usr/local/nginx/conf/nginx.conf - NGINX configuration file

worker_processes  1;

events {
    worker_connections  1024;
}

stream {
  server {
        listen 3306;
        proxy_pass my-instance-rds.mysq-aws-account.eu-west-2.rds.amazonaws.com:3306;
    }
}

/usr/local/nginx/sbin/nginx

Create a mysql nginx proxy, especially useful when transferring/accessing from a AWS non-VPC instance into a VPC or using AWS database migration service