I read the other related thread on this common communication failure, but my issue seems to different. When I login through putty to the system, I could not see mysql rpm installed. Running the mysql throws no command found and also checking service mysqld status gives "mysqld: unrecognized service". Did I miss something during instance/stack creation/configuration? Please Help.

Here is the log 

[ec2-user@cloudera3 ~]$ sqoop import-all-tables -m 2 --connect jdbc:mysql://quickstart.cloudera:3306/retail_db --username=retail_dba --password=cloudera --compression-codec=snappy --as-parquetfile --warehouse-dir=/user/hive/warehouse --hive-import
Warning: /opt/cloudera/parcels/CDH-5.4.2-1.cdh5.4.2.p0.2/bin/../lib/sqoop/../accumulo does not exist! Accumulo imports will fail.
Please set $ACCUMULO_HOME to the root of your Accumulo installation.
16/01/13 12:12:31 INFO sqoop.Sqoop: Running Sqoop version: 1.4.5-cdh5.4.2
16/01/13 12:12:31 WARN tool.BaseSqoopTool: Setting your password on the command-line is insecure. Consider using -P instead.
16/01/13 12:12:31 INFO tool.BaseSqoopTool: Using Hive-specific delimiters for output. You can override
16/01/13 12:12:31 INFO tool.BaseSqoopTool: delimiters with --fields-terminated-by, etc.
16/01/13 12:12:31 WARN tool.BaseSqoopTool: It seems that you're doing hive import directly into default
16/01/13 12:12:31 WARN tool.BaseSqoopTool: hive warehouse directory which is not supported. Sqoop is
16/01/13 12:12:31 WARN tool.BaseSqoopTool: firstly importing data into separate directory and then
16/01/13 12:12:31 WARN tool.BaseSqoopTool: inserting data into hive. Please consider removing
16/01/13 12:12:31 WARN tool.BaseSqoopTool: --target-dir or --warehouse-dir into /user/hive/warehouse in
16/01/13 12:12:31 WARN tool.BaseSqoopTool: case that you will detect any issues.
16/01/13 12:12:31 INFO manager.MySQLManager: Preparing to use a MySQL streaming resultset.
16/01/13 12:12:31 ERROR manager.CatalogQueryManager: Failed to list tables
com.mysql.jdbc.exceptions.jdbc4.CommunicationsException: Communications link failure

The last packet sent successfully to the server was 0 milliseconds ago. The driver has not received any packets from the server.
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:57)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)
at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:526)
at com.mysql.jdbc.Util.handleNewInstance(Util.java:377)
at com.mysql.jdbc.SQLError.createCommunicationsException(SQLError.java:1036)
at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.<init>(MysqlIO.java:338)
at com.mysql.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.coreConnect(ConnectionImpl.java:2232)
at com.mysql.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.connectOneTryOnly(ConnectionImpl.java:2265)
at com.mysql.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.createNewIO(ConnectionImpl.java:2064)
at com.mysql.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.<init>(ConnectionImpl.java:790)
at com.mysql.jdbc.JDBC4Connection.<init>(JDBC4Connection.java:44)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:57)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)
at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:526)
at com.mysql.jdbc.Util.handleNewInstance(Util.java:377)
at com.mysql.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.getInstance(ConnectionImpl.java:395)
at com.mysql.jdbc.NonRegisteringDriver.connect(NonRegisteringDriver.java:325)
at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(DriverManager.java:571)
at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(DriverManager.java:215)
at org.apache.sqoop.manager.SqlManager.makeConnection(SqlManager.java:880)
at org.apache.sqoop.manager.GenericJdbcManager.getConnection(GenericJdbcManager.java:52)
at org.apache.sqoop.manager.CatalogQueryManager.listTables(CatalogQueryManager.java:102)
at org.apache.sqoop.tool.ImportAllTablesTool.run(ImportAllTablesTool.java:95)
at org.apache.sqoop.Sqoop.run(Sqoop.java:143)
at org.apache.hadoop.util.ToolRunner.run(ToolRunner.java:70)
at org.apache.sqoop.Sqoop.runSqoop(Sqoop.java:179)
at org.apache.sqoop.Sqoop.runTool(Sqoop.java:218)
at org.apache.sqoop.Sqoop.runTool(Sqoop.java:227)
at org.apache.sqoop.Sqoop.main(Sqoop.java:236)
Caused by: java.net.UnknownHostException: quickstart.cloudera
at java.net.Inet4AddressImpl.lookupAllHostAddr(Native Method)
at java.net.InetAddress$1.lookupAllHostAddr(InetAddress.java:901)
at java.net.InetAddress.getAddressesFromNameService(InetAddress.java:1293)
at java.net.InetAddress.getAllByName0(InetAddress.java:1246)
at java.net.InetAddress.getAllByName(InetAddress.java:1162)
at java.net.InetAddress.getAllByName(InetAddress.java:1098)
at com.mysql.jdbc.StandardSocketFactory.connect(StandardSocketFactory.java:190)
at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.<init>(MysqlIO.java:297)
... 24 more
16/01/13 12:12:31 ERROR sqoop.Sqoop: Got exception running Sqoop: java.lang.RuntimeException: com.mysql.jdbc.exceptions.jdbc4.CommunicationsException: Communications link failure

The last packet sent successfully to the server was 0 milliseconds ago. The driver has not received any packets from the server.
java.lang.RuntimeException: com.mysql.jdbc.exceptions.jdbc4.CommunicationsException: Communications link failure

The last packet sent successfully to the server was 0 milliseconds ago. The driver has not received any packets from the server.
at org.apache.sqoop.manager.CatalogQueryManager.listTables(CatalogQueryManager.java:118)
at org.apache.sqoop.tool.ImportAllTablesTool.run(ImportAllTablesTool.java:95)
at org.apache.sqoop.Sqoop.run(Sqoop.java:143)
at org.apache.hadoop.util.ToolRunner.run(ToolRunner.java:70)
at org.apache.sqoop.Sqoop.runSqoop(Sqoop.java:179)
at org.apache.sqoop.Sqoop.runTool(Sqoop.java:218)
at org.apache.sqoop.Sqoop.runTool(Sqoop.java:227)
at org.apache.sqoop.Sqoop.main(Sqoop.java:236)
Caused by: com.mysql.jdbc.exceptions.jdbc4.CommunicationsException: Communications link failure

The last packet sent successfully to the server was 0 milliseconds ago. The driver has not received any packets from the server.
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:57)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)
at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:526)
at com.mysql.jdbc.Util.handleNewInstance(Util.java:377)
at com.mysql.jdbc.SQLError.createCommunicationsException(SQLError.java:1036)
at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.<init>(MysqlIO.java:338)
at com.mysql.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.coreConnect(ConnectionImpl.java:2232)
at com.mysql.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.connectOneTryOnly(ConnectionImpl.java:2265)
at com.mysql.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.createNewIO(ConnectionImpl.java:2064)
at com.mysql.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.<init>(ConnectionImpl.java:790)
at com.mysql.jdbc.JDBC4Connection.<init>(JDBC4Connection.java:44)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:57)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)
at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:526)
at com.mysql.jdbc.Util.handleNewInstance(Util.java:377)
at com.mysql.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.getInstance(ConnectionImpl.java:395)
at com.mysql.jdbc.NonRegisteringDriver.connect(NonRegisteringDriver.java:325)
at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(DriverManager.java:571)
at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(DriverManager.java:215)
at org.apache.sqoop.manager.SqlManager.makeConnection(SqlManager.java:880)
at org.apache.sqoop.manager.GenericJdbcManager.getConnection(GenericJdbcManager.java:52)
at org.apache.sqoop.manager.CatalogQueryManager.listTables(CatalogQueryManager.java:102)
... 7 more
Caused by: java.net.UnknownHostException: quickstart.cloudera
at java.net.Inet4AddressImpl.lookupAllHostAddr(Native Method)
at java.net.InetAddress$1.lookupAllHostAddr(InetAddress.java:901)
at java.net.InetAddress.getAddressesFromNameService(InetAddress.java:1293)
at java.net.InetAddress.getAllByName0(InetAddress.java:1246)
at java.net.InetAddress.getAllByName(InetAddress.java:1162)
at java.net.InetAddress.getAllByName(InetAddress.java:1098)
at com.mysql.jdbc.StandardSocketFactory.connect(StandardSocketFactory.java:190)
at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.<init>(MysqlIO.java:297)
... 24 more

I tried copy pasting the tutorial command, its same result as above.