Finding information about replicated backups for Amazon RDS

You can use the following CLI commands to find information about replicated backups:

The following describe-source-regions example lists the source AWS Regions from which automated backups can be replicated to the US West (Oregon) destination Region.

The output shows that backups can be replicated from US East (N. Virginia), but not from US East (Ohio) or US West (N. California), into US West (Oregon).

{
    "SourceRegions": [
        ...
        {
            "RegionName": "us-east-1",
            "Endpoint": "https://rds.us-east-1.amazonaws.com",
            "Status": "available",
            "SupportsDBInstanceAutomatedBackupsReplication": true
        },
        {
            "RegionName": "us-east-2",
            "Endpoint": "https://rds.us-east-2.amazonaws.com",
            "Status": "available",
            "SupportsDBInstanceAutomatedBackupsReplication": false
        },
            "RegionName": "us-west-1",
            "Endpoint": "https://rds.us-west-1.amazonaws.com",
            "Status": "available",
            "SupportsDBInstanceAutomatedBackupsReplication": false
        }
    ]
}

The following describe-db-instances example shows the automated backups for a DB instance.

The output includes the replicated backups.

{
    "DBInstances": [
        {
            "StorageEncrypted": false,
            "Endpoint": {
                "HostedZoneId": "Z1PVIF0B656C1W",
                "Port": 1521,
            ...

            "BackupRetentionPeriod": 7,
            "DBInstanceAutomatedBackupsReplications": [{"DBInstanceAutomatedBackupsArn": "arn:aws:rds:us-east-1:123456789012:auto-backup:ab-L2IJCEXJP7XQ7HOJ4SIEXAMPLE"}]
        }
    ]
}

The following describe-db-instance-automated-backups example shows the automated backups for a DB instance.

The output shows the source DB instance and automated backups in US West (Oregon), with backups replicated to US East (N. Virginia).

{
    "DBInstanceAutomatedBackups": [
        {
            "DBInstanceArn": "arn:aws:rds:us-west-2:868710585169:db:mydatabase",
            "DbiResourceId": "db-L2IJCEXJP7XQ7HOJ4SIEXAMPLE",
            "DBInstanceAutomatedBackupsArn": "arn:aws:rds:us-west-2:123456789012:auto-backup:ab-L2IJCEXJP7XQ7HOJ4SIEXAMPLE",
            "BackupRetentionPeriod": 7,
            "DBInstanceAutomatedBackupsReplications": [{"DBInstanceAutomatedBackupsArn": "arn:aws:rds:us-east-1:123456789012:auto-backup:ab-L2IJCEXJP7XQ7HOJ4SIEXAMPLE"}]
            "Region": "us-west-2",
            "DBInstanceIdentifier": "mydatabase",
            "RestoreWindow": {
                "EarliestTime": "2020-10-26T01:09:07Z",
                "LatestTime": "2020-10-31T19:09:53Z",
            }
            ...
        }
    ]
}

The following describe-db-instance-automated-backups example uses the --db-instance-automated-backups-arn option to show the replicated backups in the destination Region.

The output shows the source DB instance in US West (Oregon), with replicated backups in US East (N. Virginia).

{
    "DBInstanceAutomatedBackups": [
        {
            "DBInstanceArn": "arn:aws:rds:us-west-2:868710585169:db:mydatabase",
            "DbiResourceId": "db-L2IJCEXJP7XQ7HOJ4SIEXAMPLE",
            "DBInstanceAutomatedBackupsArn": "arn:aws:rds:us-east-1:123456789012:auto-backup:ab-L2IJCEXJP7XQ7HOJ4SIEXAMPLE",
            "Region": "us-west-2",
            "DBInstanceIdentifier": "mydatabase",
            "RestoreWindow": {
                "EarliestTime": "2020-10-26T01:09:07Z",
                "LatestTime": "2020-10-31T19:01:23Z"
            },
            "AllocatedStorage": 50,
            "BackupRetentionPeriod": 7,
            "Status": "replicating",
            "Port": 1521,
            ...
        }
    ]
}