using phpmyadmin on bitnami to access RDS instance
# Edit the phpMyAdmin configuration file at
# /opt/bitnami/apps/phpmyadmin/htdocs/config.inc.php
# and add the lines below to the end of the file:
$i++;
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['verbose'] = 'Amazon RDS';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['host'] = 'RDS-ENDPOINT';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['port'] = '3306';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['socket'] = '';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['connect_type'] = 'tcp';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['extension'] = 'mysqli';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] = 'cookie';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['AllowNoPassword'] = false;