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Is it possible to allow any IP to connect to a Amazon RDS instance using MySQL?

Explaining my scenario as requested in the comments:

Amazon RDS by default blocks all the incoming connections which the incoming IP is not listed in the AWS security group "white list". But I use 3G connection on my workstation, so my IP address is always changing. I don't want to update the security group "white list" every time I connect to my 3G with the new IP in order to be able to connect to my RDS instance.

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Just figured out how to do it:

Just add 0.0.0.0/0 to the security group "white list"

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Rubem Azenha
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    While this "may" solve your problem it does completely defeat any security offered by the default configuration -- You may want to speak to your cell provider and try to get a list of networks to add to the whitelist rather than just allowing the whole internet in... – voretaq7 Aug 15 '12 at 18:31
  • It's for a development environment, no sensitive information here. The staging and production instances are in a different security group. – Rubem Azenha Aug 15 '12 at 18:33