Amazon RDS announces cross-Region and cross-account snapshot copy

Amazon RDS now supports cross-Region and cross-account copying of Amazon RDS and Amazon Aurora snapshots. This launch allows you to copy snapshots across Regions and accounts directly without performing it sequentially as two separate copies.

Customers use cross-Region and cross-account snapshot copies for managing the risk of incidents such as ransomware attacks and region outages affecting their production accounts or primary Regions. Previously, customers that copied snapshots cross-Region and cross-account did so in a two step process that involved first copying the snapshot to a different Region and then to a different account or vice versa. Now, by performing this action in a single step, customers eliminate an intermediate snapshot copy, thereby meeting a high recovery point objective (RPO) as well as saving costs associated with the intermediate copy. Additionally, customers that currently use custom scripts or services such as a Lambda for monitoring the status of the intermediate copy, to then trigger the second copy, can simplify these workflows by eliminating this process.

Cross-Region and cross-account snapshot copy is available on all Amazon RDS and Amazon Aurora engines in all AWS Regions, including the AWS China Regions and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. You can start using this feature today through the AWS Management Console, AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), or AWS SDKs. To get started, refer the Amazon RDS or Amazon Aurora documentation.