title: Connect MS Excel and/or MS Access with AWS RDS
body: <p>I have hired developers to make an app for me. The backend database is hosted on Amazon Web Service RDS. The server side language is PHP using Yii framework. originally when I awarded the work i asked the developers to make sure I could connect Excel and/or Access to the backend Database - AWS RDS in this case. </p>
  
  <p>The developers are now telling me it is not possible to connect AWS RDS with MS Access. Instead they have asked me to install MYSQL workbench to connect with AWS RDS. That connection worked.</p>
  
  <p>My question is: Is their statement true? is it not possible to use some sort of ODBC to allow MS Access to connect with AWS RDS. Can MS Access connect with AWS Dynamo DB? What if I switched to AWS hosted SQL Server?</p>
  
  <p>Appreciate your help</p>