Hard time connecting MySQL Workbench to Forge Provisioned server

I cannot access any AWS server that was provisioned by Forge. I get a message in Workbench that states "Authentication Error, unhandled exception caught in tunnel manager,..." At one point I could but not sure why I cannot access servers that were recently deployed. I am fairly confident that I have set my private and public keys up properly so just wondering if anyone else has this problem.

As an aside, I looked elsewhere for an answer but all solutions pointed to the fact that AWS would also have a RDS instance. I have never seen Forge deploy a Laravel project with an RDS instance. Separate point just calling it out as I don't have any RDS instance on my Forge deployed servers. Thoughts/Opinions?