Yes, there's an SSH option now as described by coewar, but it requires a password for the SSH host. For AWS RDS, we use a secure AWS cert file (.pem) instead of a password to access the EC2 based SSH host, but there appears to be no support for using this with SSH using Toad. I've successfully done this using MySQL Workbench (they have a setup for this scenario), and I've done the Putty SSH shuffle as well (documented many places elsewhere) to get it working with Toad. If you've set up a VPC (Virtual Private Cloud) in AWS to bury the DB from outside contact (i.e. private subnet), the only real way to get to the DB from the outside is through SSH Tunnel via an SSH host that lives in a public subnet within your VPC, which in turn has access to the private DB subnet.
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