Backups

  • Backups are continous and point in time recovery
  • Backups have retentions period 0-35 days, 0 means disabled
  • Backups happens during maintanence windows
  • Backups uses EBS snapshot behind the scenes? Snapshots
  • Snapshots takes IO operation
  • In multi az, snapshots will be done on the master databse
  • Snapshots are incremental
  • Snapshots can be copied and shared across accounts
  • Don’t expire
  • Final snapshot when DB is deleted

Snapshot Sharing

  • If the snapshot is encrypted, the CMK has to be shared

Why have both? Both does the same thing? One is managed, another is manual and preemptive