AWS Storage Blog
Author: Evan Peck
Evan Peck is a Startup Solutions Architect at AWS, based in San Francisco, USA. In his role, Evan works with Fintech Startups to design and architect cloud solutions through their Startup journey. He enjoys and is passionate about working with Startups and their founders from inception, building an MVP, and scaling their business.
Protecting encrypted Amazon RDS instances with cross-account and cross-Region backups
UPDATE 11/04/2025: On October 30, 2025, AWS Backup announced support for copying database snapshots across AWS Regions and accounts using a single copy action. This feature supports Amazon RDS, Amazon Aurora, Amazon Neptune, and Amazon DocumentDB snapshots and eliminates the need for sequential copying steps. The guidance within this blog is still be valid when […]