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Implementing AWS: Design, Build, and Manage your Infrastructure.

You're reading from   Implementing AWS: Design, Build, and Manage your Infrastructure. Leverage AWS features to build highly secure, fault-tolerant, and scalable cloud environments

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Product type Course
Published in Jan 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788835770
Length 690 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Yohan Wadia Yohan Wadia
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Table of Contents (29) Chapters Close

Title Page
Copyright and Credits
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
1. What is New in AWS? FREE CHAPTER 2. Managing EC2 with Systems Manager 3. Introducing Elastic Beanstalk and Elastic File System 4. Securing Workloads Using AWS WAF 5. Governing Your Environments Using AWS CloudTrail and AWS Config 6. Access Control Using AWS IAM and AWS Organizations 7. Transforming Application Development Using the AWS Code Suite 8. Powering Analytics Using Amazon EMR and Amazon Redshift 9. Orchestrating Data using AWS Data Pipeline 10. Managing AWS Accounts 11. Using AWS Compute 12. Management Tools 13. Database Services 14. Introducing AWS Lambda 15. Writing Lambda Functions 16. Testing Lambda Functions 17. Event-Driven Model 18. Extending AWS Lambda with External Services 19. Build and Deploy Serverless Applications with AWS Lambda 20. Monitoring and Troubleshooting AWS Lambda 21. AWS Lambda - Use Cases 22. Next Steps with AWS Lambda 1. Other Books You May Enjoy Index

Creating a one-time database backup


We're now going to show you how to make a one-off snapshot of your database. You might opt to do this if you have a specific requirement around keeping a point in time backup of your DB. You might also want to take a snapshot for the purpose of creating a new working copy of your dataset.

Getting ready

In order to proceed you're going to need the following:

  • The identifier for the RDS instance you wish to back up
  • A unique identifier that you'd like to assign to this snapshot

The snapshot identifier has some constraints:

  • It needs to start with a letter
  • It must not be longer than 255 characters

Note

If your primary database isn't running in a multi-AZ configuration then be aware that creating a snapshot will cause an outage. In a multi-AZ configuration the snapshot is taken on the standby instance so no outage occurs.

How to do it...

Type the following AWS CLI command to initiate the creation of a snapshot. You'll need to wait for a few minutes for the snapshot to complete...

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