Amazon RDS announces cross-region automated backups in Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) and Africa (Cape Town)

Cross-Region Automated Backup replication for Amazon RDS is now available in Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) and Africa (Cape Town) Regions. This launch allows you to setup automated backup replication between Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) and Asia Pacific (Mumbai); and between Africa (Cape Town) and Europe (Ireland), Europe (London), or Europe (Frankfurt) Regions.

Automated Backups enable recovery capability for mission-critical databases by providing you the ability to restore your database to a specific point in time within your backup retention period. With Cross-Region Automated Backup replication, RDS will replicate snapshots and transaction logs to the chosen destination AWS Region. In the event that your primary AWS Region becomes unavailable, you can restore the automated backup to a point in time in the secondary AWS Region and quickly resume operations. As transaction logs are uploaded to the target AWS Region frequently, you can achieve a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of within the last few minutes.

You can setup Cross-Region Automated Backup replication with just a few clicks on the Amazon RDS Management Console or using the AWS SDK or CLI. Cross-Region Automated Backup replication is available on Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL, Amazon RDS for MariaDB, Amazon RDS for MySQL, Amazon RDS for Oracle, and Amazon RDS for Microsoft SQL Server. For more information, including instructions on getting started, read the Amazon RDS documentation.