CL4 Connecting to a Remote AWS Database

Unable to connect to the database.\nMain connection [MySQLi]: Connection refused

The MySQL server did not accept your connection.
Check the server or network configuration.

Port 3306 is open on both AWS instances.

How did you know that? If it is really open, the error message would be different.

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