Managing backups for SQL Server RDS instances is crucial to ensuring data availability and disaster recovery. AWS provides tools to facilitate this process, including commands to back up SQL Server RDS databases directly to Amazon S3. This article walks you through the commands and configurations needed to perform backups and restores.

Backing Up SQL Server RDS to S3

The primary stored procedure used for creating backups is msdb.dbo.rds_backup_database. This command allows you to specify the database to back up and the S3 location where the backup will be stored.