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Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) in Amazon Web Services China - Getting Started with Amazon Web Services China
Region availabilityHow Amazon RDS differsDocumentation
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).

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) in Amazon Web Services China

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) is a web service that makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud. It provides cost-efficient and resizable capacity while managing time-consuming database administration tasks, freeing you up to focus on your applications and business.

Region availability

Amazon Relational Database Service is available in the following regions in China:

  • China (Beijing) Region

  • China (Ningxia) Region

How Amazon RDS differs

The following differences apply to Amazon Relational Database Service:

  • Cross-region features, such as DB snapshot copying across regions and read replication across multiple regions, are not available between the China (Beijing) Region and other non-China Regions.

  • Backup and maintenance windows:

    • If you don’t specify a preferred backup window when you create the DB instance, Amazon RDS assigns a default 30-minute backup window which is selected at random from between 06:00 and 14:00 UTC.

    • If you don’t specify a preferred maintenance window when you create the DB instance, Amazon RDS assigns a default 30-minute maintenance window on a randomly selected day of the week from between 06:00 and 14:00 UTC.

  • For current information on DB Instance classes, see Amazon RDS Pricing.

  • You can have up to 20 manual snapshots for your account in the China (Beijing) and China (Ningxia) Regions.

  • Since the China (Ningxia) Region uses a unique certificate authority (CA), update your DB instances for the China (Ningxia) Region to use the Region-specific certificate identified by rds-ca-rsa2048-g1 in DescribeCertificates calls as soon as possible. The remaining instructions described in the Rotating your SSL/TLS certificate topic are the same, except for the certificate identifier.

  • Zero-ETL integration with SageMaker Lakehouse isn’t available.

Documentation