Restoration Solutions

If your database is damaged or mistakenly deleted, you can restore it from backups.

RDS moves unsubscribed yearly/monthly instances and deleted pay-per-use instances to the recycle bin. You can rebuild a DB instance that was deleted up to 7 days ago from the recycle bin. For details, see Rebuilding a DB Instance.
You can restore a deleted instance from its retained manual backups. For details, see Restoring from Backup Files to RDS for SQL Server Instances.

**Table 1** Restoration solutions
Solution	Category	Storage Type		Restoration Time Point		Scope		Restore To	Time Required
Solution	Category	Cloud SSD	Extreme SSD	Point in Time When a Backup Was Generated	Any Point in Time Within a Specified Range	All Databases and Tables	Certain Databases and Tables	Existing Instance Other than the Original Instance	Time Required
Restoring an entire instance	Restoration from backups	√	√	√	x	√	x	√	Depending on how much data there is in the instance
Restoring an entire instance	Point-in-time recovery (PITR)	√	√	√	√	√	x	√	Depending on how much data there is in the instance

You can restore data to an RDS for SQL Server instance from backups. For details, see Restoring from Backup Files to RDS for SQL Server Instances and PITR: Restoring a DB Instance to a Point in Time.
You can migrate data to an RDS for SQL Server instance using Data Replication Service (DRS) or Data Admin Service (DAS). For details, see Migration Solution Overview.