Posted On: Mar 1, 2023
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for SQL Server now supports Cross Region Automated Backups with encryption. The Amazon RDS Cross-Region Automated Backups feature enables disaster recovery capability for mission-critical databases by providing you the ability to restore your database to a specific point in time within your backup retention period. This allows you to quickly resume operations in the event that the primary AWS Region becomes unavailable. If you've enabled encryption on the source RDS for SQL Server DB instance, you can use this feature to copy encrypted DB snapshots to regions outside of the primary AWS region.
Pricing is comprised of the storage for snapshots and the data transfer of the snapshots and the transaction logs. Data transfer between the primary AWS Region to a secondary AWS Region is billed based on the data transfer rates of the applicable AWS Regions. See Amazon RDS for SQL Server Pricing for up-to-date pricing of instances, storage, data transfer, and regional availability.
Amazon RDS for SQL Server makes it simple to set up, operate, and scale SQL Server deployments in the cloud to learn more about Amazon RDS Cross-Region Automated Backups and the supported destination regions, visit the documentation page and the blog post.