Posted On: Jun 27, 2024

The Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Multi-AZ deployments with two readable standbys now supports export of snapshot data to an Amazon S3 bucket.. Amazon RDS Multi-AZ deployments with two readable standbys is ideal when your workloads require lower write latency and more read capacity. In addition, this deployment option supports minor version upgrades and system maintenance updates with typically less than one second of downtime when using Amazon RDS Proxy or any one of the open-source Amazon Advanced JDBC Driver, PgBouncer, or ProxySQL.

You can now export Amazon RDS Multi-AZ deployments with two readable standbys snapshot data to an Amazon S3 bucket. The export process runs in the background and doesn't affect the performance of your cluster. When you export a DB snapshot, Amazon RDS extracts data from the snapshot and stores it in an Amazon S3 bucket. The data is stored in an Apache Parquet format that is compressed and consistent. After the data is exported, you can analyze the exported data directly through tools like Amazon Athena or Amazon Redshift Spectrum.

For a full list of Multi-AZ Deployments with two readable standbys regional availability and supported engine versions, refer the Amazon RDS User Guide.

You can create or update a fully managed Amazon RDS Multi-AZ database with two readable standbys in the Amazon RDS Management Console.