MySQL Database connection error for hasura cloud

I am using hasura cloud environment. For MySQL database, I am using MySQL workbench and created a database. I want to use this database in hasura environment. MySQL server is up and running on the port 3306.
My JDBC Connection string is:
jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/employees?user=admin&password=password@123
After connecting, I got this error

[
    {
        "definition": "employees",
        "message": {
            "stacktrace": "com.mysql.cj.jdbc.exceptions.CommunicationsException: Communications link failurennThe last packet sent successfully to the server was 0 milliseconds ago. The driver has not received any packets from the server.ntat com.mysql.cj.jdbc.exceptions.SQLError.createCommunicationsException(SQLError.java:174)ntat com.mysql.cj.jdbc.exceptions.SQLExceptionsMapping.translateException(SQLExceptionsMapping.java:64)ntat com.mysql.cj.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.createNewIO(ConnectionImpl.java:828)ntat com.mysql.cj.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.<init>(ConnectionImpl.java:448)ntat com.mysql.cj.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.getInstance(ConnectionImpl.java:241)ntat com.mysql.cj.jdbc.NonRegisteringDriver.connect(NonRegisteringDriver.java:198)ntat io.agroal.pool.ConnectionFactory.createConnection(ConnectionFactory.java:226)ntat io.agroal.pool.ConnectionPool$CreateConnectionTask.call(ConnectionPool.java:536)ntat io.agroal.pool.ConnectionPool$CreateConnectionTask.call(ConnectionPool.java:517)ntat java.base/java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:264)ntat io.agroal.pool.util.PriorityScheduledExecutor.beforeExecute(PriorityScheduledExecutor.java:75)ntat java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1134)ntat java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:635)ntat java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:833)nCaused by: com.mysql.cj.exceptions.CJCommunicationsException: Communications link failurennThe last packet sent successfully to the server was 0 milliseconds ago. The driver has not received any packets from the server.ntat jdk.internal.reflect.GeneratedConstructorAccessor53.newInstance(Unknown Source)ntat java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)ntat java.base/java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstanceWithCaller(Constructor.java:499)ntat java.base/java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:480)ntat com.mysql.cj.exceptions.ExceptionFactory.createException(ExceptionFactory.java:61)ntat com.mysql.cj.exceptions.ExceptionFactory.createException(ExceptionFactory.java:105)ntat com.mysql.cj.exceptions.ExceptionFactory.createException(ExceptionFactory.java:151)ntat com.mysql.cj.exceptions.ExceptionFactory.createCommunicationsException(ExceptionFactory.java:167)ntat com.mysql.cj.protocol.a.NativeSocketConnection.connect(NativeSocketConnection.java:89)ntat com.mysql.cj.NativeSession.connect(NativeSession.java:120)ntat com.mysql.cj.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.connectOneTryOnly(ConnectionImpl.java:948)ntat com.mysql.cj.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.createNewIO(ConnectionImpl.java:818)nt... 11 morenCaused by: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refusedntat java.base/sun.nio.ch.Net.connect0(Native Method)ntat java.base/sun.nio.ch.Net.connect(Net.java:579)ntat java.base/sun.nio.ch.Net.connect(Net.java:568)ntat java.base/sun.nio.ch.NioSocketImpl.connect(NioSocketImpl.java:593)ntat java.base/java.net.SocksSocketImpl.connect(SocksSocketImpl.java:327)ntat java.base/java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:633)ntat com.mysql.cj.protocol.StandardSocketFactory.connect(StandardSocketFactory.java:153)ntat com.mysql.cj.protocol.a.NativeSocketConnection.connect(NativeSocketConnection.java:63)nt... 14 moren"
        },
        "name": "source employees",
        "reason": "Inconsistent object: Communications link failurennThe last packet sent successfully to the server was 0 milliseconds ago. The driver has not received any packets from the server.",
        "type": "source"
    }
]

does using a local SQL database for cloud environment is allowed? Or should we have to use MySQL database from cloud.
I have a small doubt. Is there any problem with password as it includes @ symbol!