Updated on 2025-12-26 GMT+08:00

Restoring an On-Premises Backup File to an RDS DB Instance

To restore an RDS instance from on-premises MySQL backups:

Use the DRS real-time migration to migrate on-premises MySQL databases to RDS.

To restore an RDS instance from on-premises SQL Server backups:

  1. Upload the .bak backup file in the on-premises SQL Server database to an OBS bucket.
  2. Use the DRS backup migration to migrate the backup files from an OBS bucket to RDS.