Configurar PhpMyAdmin para acceder a RDS

sudo nano /etc/phpMyAdmin/config.inc.php

Modificar los siguientes parámetros:

$i++;
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['host'] = 'xxxxx.xxxxxxxxxx.us-east-1.rds.amazonaws.com';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['port'] = '3306';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['verbose'] = 'YOUR_SERVER_NAME';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['connect_type'] = 'tcp';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['extension'] = 'mysql';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['compress'] = TRUE;