Sharing public snapshots

You can share an unencrypted manual snapshot as public, which makes the snapshot available to all AWS accounts. Make sure when sharing a snapshot as public that none of your private information is included in the public snapshot.

When a snapshot is shared publicly, it gives all AWS accounts permission both to copy the snapshot and to create DB clusters from it.

You aren't billed for the backup storage of public snapshots owned by other accounts. You're billed only for snapshots that you own.

If you copy a public snapshot, you own the copy. You're billed for the backup storage of your snapshot copy. If you create a DB cluster from a public snapshot, you're billed for that DB cluster. For Amazon Aurora pricing information, see the Aurora pricing page.

You can delete only the public snapshots that you own. To delete a shared or public snapshot, make sure to log into the AWS account that owns the snapshot.

Viewing public snapshots owned by other AWS accounts

You can view public snapshots owned by other accounts in a particular AWS Region on the Public tab of the Snapshots page in the Amazon RDS console. Your snapshots (those owned by your account) don't appear on this tab.

To view public snapshots

1. Open the Amazon RDS console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/rds/.

2. In the navigation pane, choose Snapshots.

3. Choose the Public tab.

   The public snapshots appear. You can see which account owns a public snapshot in the Owner column.

   Note

   You might have to modify the page preferences, by selecting the gear icon at the upper right of the Public snapshots list, to see this column.

Viewing your own public snapshots

You can use the following AWS CLI command (Unix only) to view the public snapshots owned by your AWS account in a particular AWS Region.

aws rds describe-db-cluster-snapshots --snapshot-type public --include-public | grep account_number

The output returned is similar to the following example if you have public snapshots.

"DBClusterSnapshotArn": "arn:aws:rds:us-west-2:123456789012:cluster-snapshot:myclustersnapshot1",
"DBClusterSnapshotArn": "arn:aws:rds:us-west-2:123456789012:cluster-snapshot:myclustersnapshot2",

Sharing public snapshots from deprecated DB engine versions

Restoring or copying public snapshots from deprecated DB engine versions isn't supported. To make your existing unsupported public snapshot available to restore or copy, perform the following steps:

1. Mark the snapshot as private.

2. Restore the snapshot.

3. Upgrade the restored DB cluster to a supported engine version.

4. Create a new snapshot.

5. Re-share the snapshot publicly.