Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports copying option groups during cross-Region snapshot copy

Amazon RDS for Oracle

Amazon RDS for Oracle now lets you copy the option group associated with a DB snapshot when you copy that snapshot to another AWS Region.

Previously, customers wanting to replicate RDS backups that had option groups to a different AWS Region had to copy the snapshot without the option group and then recreate the option group in the target Region before restoring the snapshot. Now, you can initiate the snapshot copy and specify the option group copy in the same request as the snapshot copy.

What to do

• Use the CopyDBSnapshot API or CLI command with the CopyOptionGroup parameter set to true to copy the option group to the destination snapshot in the target AWS Region.

This capability is available in all commercial AWS Regions and the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions.

Source: AWS release notes

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