Amazon RDS: encryption on port 3306?

Question

It looks like Amazon's RDS instances have encryption turned off for their connections - is there a way to turn on SSL encryption on RDS instances?

Answer 1

It's only supported for mysql RDS instances. See the last two questions in the faq section "security"

http://aws.amazon.com/rds/faqs/#How_do_I_secure_Amazon_RDS_DB_Instances_running_within_my_VPC