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Interacting with AWS Aurora Serverless

So you created your first MySQL Aurora Serverless cluster and are ready to use it. You open your terminal client at home and type the command

mysql -u admin cluster-name-east-1.rds.amazonaws.com

and nothing happens. Well, to be more precise, the mysql client times out and exits.

The answer is simple.