Unable to connect to Aurora MySQL from ECS Fargate (transient failure exception)
The problem wasnt transient at all, it was the connection string: the Terraform endpoint property included the port number, so the server part read dbcluster:3306 and the .NET MySQL driver choked on it. Changing server=dbcluster:3306 to just server=dbcluster fixed the connection. If youre building the connection strin…
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