Amazon RDS now supports backup configuration when restoring snapshots

Amazon RDS and Aurora Backup Configuration Enhancements

Amazon RDS and Amazon Aurora now provide greater flexibility for restore operations, allowing you to view and modify backup retention period and preferred backup window prior to and upon restoring database snapshots. Previously, restored database instances and clusters inherited backup parameter values from snapshot metadata and could only be modified after restore was complete.

• Backup Retention Period: Specify how many days backups are retained.
• Preferred Backup Window: Set your desired backup schedule.

What to do

• View backup retention period and preferred backup window settings as part of automated backups and snapshots before initiating restore operations.
• Specify or modify the backup retention period and preferred backup window when restoring database instances and clusters.

These enhancements are available for all Amazon RDS database engines (MySQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, Oracle, SQL Server, and DB2) and Amazon Aurora (MySQL-Compatible and PostgreSQL-Compatible editions) in all AWS commercial regions and AWS GovCloud (US) regions where RDS and Aurora are supported and respective database engines are available. You can use these features through the AWS Management Console, AWS CLI, and AWS SDKs at no additional cost.

Source: AWS release notes

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