How to retain backups longer than 35 days in AWS RDS

Amazon RDS is used to host the database for a few of the projects I work with regularly. I like having Amazon manage this key service for me, and one of the things I really like is the automated point-in-time backups.

But one problem I frequently run into is that these RDS-managed backups have a limit of 35 days of history. And I'm not okay with just hoping we never need something older than that.

In the past, I had a complicated solution to handle it, but recently I discovered there is a service that makes this even easier to manage. It has the catchy name: AWS Backup.

Not only does it make a longer retention strategy possible, they even have common templates like a rolling year of weekly backups. Also, this isn't RDS-specific; RDS is just one of the many services it supports. You can use it for EC2 volumes and many other AWS services.

If you have a homegrown solution, like I did, this is much easier to set up and maintain.

Here to help,

Joel

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