Services or capabilities described in Amazon Web Services documentation might vary by Region. To see the differences applicable to the China Regions, see Getting Started with Amazon Web Services in China (PDF).

Cross-Region automated backups

By using backup replication in Amazon RDS, you can configure your RDS DB instance to replicate snapshots and transaction logs to a destination Region. When backup replication is configured for a DB instance, RDS starts a cross-Region copy of all snapshots and transaction logs when they're ready. For more information, see Replicating automated backups to another Amazon Web Services Region.

Backup replication is available in all Amazon Web Services Regions except the following:

For more detailed information on limitations for source and destination backup Regions, see Replicating automated backups to another Amazon Web Services Region.

Backup replication with RDS for Db2

Amazon RDS supports backup replication for all currently available versions of RDS for Db2.

Backup replication with RDS for MariaDB

Amazon RDS supports backup replication for all currently available versions of RDS for MariaDB.

Backup replication with RDS for MySQL

Amazon RDS supports backup replication for all currently available versions of RDS for MySQL.

Backup replication with RDS for Oracle

Amazon RDS supports backup replication for all currently available versions of RDS for Oracle.

Backup replication with RDS for PostgreSQL

Amazon RDS supports backup replication for all currently available versions of RDS for PostgreSQL.

Backup replication with RDS for SQL Server

Amazon RDS supports backup replication for all currently available versions of RDS for SQL Server.