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 disasters 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 in a single step is available on all Amazon RDS and Amazon Aurora engines in Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet and the Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD. You can start using this feature today through the Management Console, Amazon Command Line Interface (CLI), or SDKs. To get started, please refer the Amazon RDS or Amazon Aurora documentation.