aws rds create-db-snapshot

aws rds create-db-snapshot creates a snapshot of a DB instance. The source DB instance must be in the available or storage-optimization state.

• https://awscli.amazonaws.com/v2/documentation/api/latest/reference/rds/create-db-snapshot.html

aws rds create-db-snapshot \
    --db-instance-identifier database-mysql \
    --db-snapshot-identifier mydbsnapshot

Official example

 aws rds create-db-snapshot \
    --db-instance-identifier database-mysql \
    --db-snapshot-identifier mydbsnapshot

{
    "DBSnapshot": {
        "DBSnapshotIdentifier": "mydbsnapshot",
        "DBInstanceIdentifier": "database-mysql",
        "Engine": "mysql",
        "AllocatedStorage": 100,
        "Status": "creating",
        "Port": 3306,
        "AvailabilityZone": "us-east-1b",
        "VpcId": "vpc-6594f31c",
        "InstanceCreateTime": "2019-04-30T15:45:53.663Z",
        "MasterUsername": "admin",
        "EngineVersion": "5.6.40",
        "LicenseModel": "general-public-license",
        "SnapshotType": "manual",
        "Iops": 1000,
        "OptionGroupName": "default:mysql-5-6",
        "PercentProgress": 0,
        "StorageType": "io1",
        "Encrypted": true,
        "KmsKeyId": "arn:aws:kms:us-east-1:123456789012:key/AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE",
        "DBSnapshotArn": "arn:aws:rds:us-east-1:123456789012:snapshot:mydbsnapshot",
        "IAMDatabaseAuthenticationEnabled": false,
        "ProcessorFeatures": [],
        "DbiResourceId": "db-AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE"
    }
}

Related

• aws rds restore-db-instance-from-db-snapshot
• aws rds restore-db-instance-to-point-in-time
• Terraform resource: aws_db_snapshot
• aws rds describe-db-cluster-snapshots

See also

• AWS RDS Snapshots: aws rds [ create-db-snapshot | create-db-cluster-snapshot | describe-db-cluster-snapshots | restore-db-instance-from-db-snapshot | delete-db-snapshot ]
• AWS RDS: AWS::RDS, aws rds [ create-db-instance | create-db-instance-read-replica | describe-db-instances | modify-db-instance | modify-db-cluster | create-db-subnet-group | delete-db-instance | create-db-snapshot | aws rds create-db-parameter-group ], AllocatedStorage, FreeStorageSpace
• Snapshot, mysqldump, mariabackup, mongodump, aws ebs start-snapshot, aws rds create-db-snapshot, aws rds restore-db-cluster-from-snapshot, aws rds promote-read-replica, aws rds promote-read-replica-db-cluster, Elasticsearch snapshots, Kubernetes Volume Group Snapshots API, EC2 snapshots, lvcreate --snapshot