Terraform AWS Provider does not support CopyDBSnapshot

[PedroRibeiro95]

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Description

Terraform AWS Provider does not support the CopyDBSnapshot API call, which allows copying a manual snapshot of an RDS instance, either to the same region, to a different region or even to a different AWS account.

This functionality can be of particular use in Terraform for a multitude of reasons, including disaster recovery plans with snapshots copied across multiple regions, launch of testing environments on different regions restoring from some database snapshot, among others.

New or Affected Resource(s)

• aws_db_snapshot_copy

Potential Terraform Configuration

resource "aws_db_snapshot_copy" "test" {
  source_region                 = "<region where the snapshot is>"
  source_db_snapshot_identifier = "<snapshot ARN>"
  target_db_snapshot_identifier = "<name to give to the copied snapshot"
  kms_key_id                    = "<key to encrypt copy>"
}

References

AWS API Call documentation: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/APIReference/API_CopyDBSnapshot.html

AWS Go SDK documentation: https://godoc.org/github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/service/rds#CopyDBSnapshot

[joaoantunes]

Hi any news about this subject? How can I copy a snapshot between regions? Only AWS Cli?

[SpComb]

This would be required when restoring an encrypted snapshot shared from a different AWS account.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/USER_ShareSnapshot.html#USER_ShareSnapshot.Encrypted

• Sharing an unencrypted manual DB snapshot enables authorized AWS accounts to directly restore a DB instance from the snapshot instead of taking a copy of it and restoring from that. However, you can't restore a DB instance from a DB snapshot that is both shared and encrypted. Instead, you can make a copy of the DB snapshot and restore the DB instance from the copy.

[github-actions]

This functionality has been released in v4.15.0 of the Terraform AWS Provider. Please see the Terraform documentation on provider versioning or reach out if you need any assistance upgrading.

For further feature requests or bug reports with this functionality, please create a new GitHub issue following the template. Thank you!

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