Amazon RDS now supports backup configuration when restoring snapshots

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) and Amazon Aurora now offer greater flexibility for restore operations to view and modify backup retention period and preferred backup window prior to and upon restoring database snapshots. The backup retention period lets you specify how many days backups are retained, while the preferred backup window allows you to set your desired backup schedule.

Previously, restored database instances and clusters inherited backup parameter values from snapshot metadata and could only be modified after restore was complete. This launch introduces two enhancements - you can now view the backup retention period and preferred backup window settings as part of automated backups and snapshots, providing visibility into backup configurations before initiating restore operation. Additionally, you can now specify or modify the backup retention period and preferred backup window when restoring database instances and clusters, eliminating the need to modify the instance or cluster after restoration.

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 Command Line Interface (CLI), and AWS SDKs at no additional cost. For more information, see Amazon RDS and Amazon Aurora User Guide.