Amazon RDS on AWS Outposts 1

Ensure a secure connection between AWS Outposts

and the parent region using AWS Direct Connect or
Reference Architecture for deploying Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) on AWS Outposts. VPN. If the network connection between the AWS
Region and AWS Outposts is disconnected,
Amazon RDS for Outposts will continue to run. API
calls and management tasks will be unavailable
until the connection is restored.
Create a database (DB) subnet group that
6 2 includes one subnet that is associated with your
Outpost using AWS Management Console, the
AWS CLI, or APIs. Customer Owned IP is also
available for Amazon RDS on Outposts.
7 Create a supported RDS on Outposts using the
3 Console, CLI, or APIs. RDS creates an Elastic
3 Network Interface (ENI) in the DB subnet group
specified earlier. Amazon RDS currently supports
MySQL and PosgreSQL database engines and
db.m5 and db.r5 instances.
5 Applications in the same VPC within the same
1 4 Region or on Outposts can connect to the
database using the RDS endpoint. Applications
on-premises can connect to the RDS database
through the Outposts Local gateway Direct VPC
connect.
For Amazon RDS on AWS Outposts backups, you
5 can use automated backups or manual snapshots.
All the snapshots and transaction logs are stored
in the AWS Region. If data residency is required,
please reach out to your local account team.
2 1. By default, automatic backups are enabled
for 7 days. Retention can be set to a
4 minimum of 1 day and maximum of 35
days. Schedule backups by defining a
backup window time and duration.
2. DB Snapshots are user-initiated, and can be
initiated at any time using the Console via
the CreateDBSnapshot API, or the create-
db-snapshot command. They are kept until
you explicitly delete them.
4 For disaster recovery, you can restore the
6 RDS database in the parent Region using a
snapshot that was taken from the RDS
instance running on AWS Outposts.
AWS Outposts supports Amazon
7 CloudWatch metrics. For a list of the
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See the AWS Outposts FAQ page for updates on new
services and features.