I have an AWS lightsail instance (bitnami), and it connects to an RDS instance of MariaDB. I recently made some updates (perhaps to the RDS instance, perhaps to the lightsail host), not sure what. However I can no longer connect to the RDS! When I run

mysql -h somerds.amazonaws.com -P 3306 -u root -pMYPASS

I get the following error:

ERROR 2026 (HY000): SSL connection error: unknown error number

I can’t find much info on this error. Does the mysql protocol (over port 3306) use SSL? I’m running MySQL v14.14 on the lightsail host. Is this an SSL protocol incompatibility? How do I fix this?

Running mysql with -vvv did not reveal anything