Power BI to RDS MySQL Connection Tutorial

Power BI to RDS MySQL Connection on AWS

Are you looking to connect Microsoft Power BI to an AWS (Amazon Web Services) RDS (Amazon Relational Database Service) instance?

This video shows you how to connect Power BI to a MySql AWS RDS instance from the Power BI Desktop system. Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud. It provides cost-efficient and resizable capacity while automating time-consuming administration tasks such as hardware provisioning, database setup, patching and backups.

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