Restoring an Aurora DB cluster or a global cluster with Amazon RDS Extended Support - Amazon Aurora
Considerations for RDS Extended SupportRestore an Aurora DB cluster DB cluster or a global cluster with RDS Extended Support

Restoring an Aurora DB cluster or a global cluster with Amazon RDS Extended Support

When you restore an Aurora DB cluster or a global cluster, select Enable RDS Extended Support in the console, or use the Extended Support option in the AWS CLI or the parameter in the RDS API.

Note

If you don't specify the RDS Extended Support setting, Aurora defaults to RDS Extended Support. This default behavior maintains the availability of your database past the Aurora end of standard support date.

Considerations for RDS Extended Support

Before restoring an Aurora DB cluster or a global cluster, consider the following items:

  • After the Aurora end of standard support date has passed, if you want to restore an Aurora DB cluster or a global cluster from Amazon S3, you can only do so by using the AWS CLI or the RDS API. Use the --engine-lifecycle-support option in the restore-db-cluster-from-s3 AWS CLI command or the EngineLifecycleSupport parameter in the RestoreDBClusterFromS3 RDS API operation.

  • If you want to prevent Aurora from restoring your databases to RDS Extended Support versions, specify open-source-rds-extended-support-disabled in the AWS CLI or the RDS API. By doing so, you will avoid any associated RDS Extended Support charges.

    If you specify this setting, Amazon Aurora will automatically upgrade your restored database to a newer, supported major version. If the upgrade fails pre-upgrade checks, Amazon Aurora will safely roll back to the RDS Extended Support engine version. This database will remain in RDS Extended Support mode, and Amazon Aurora will charge you for RDS Extended Support until you manually upgrade your database.

  • RDS Extended Support is set at the cluster level. Members of a cluster will always have the same setting for RDS Extended Support in the RDS console, --engine-lifecycle-support in the AWS CLI, and EngineLifecycleSupport in the RDS API.

For more information, see Amazon Aurora versions.

Restore an Aurora DB cluster DB cluster or a global cluster with RDS Extended Support

You can restore an Aurora DB cluster or a global cluster with an RDS Extended Support version using the AWS Management Console, the AWS CLI, or the RDS API.

When you restore an Aurora DB cluster or a global cluster, select Enable RDS Extended Support in the Engine options section.

The following image shows the Enable RDS Extended Support setting:

The Enable RDS Extended Support setting in the Engine options section.

When you use the restore-db-cluster-from-snapshot AWS CLI command, select RDS Extended Support by specifying open-source-rds-extended-support for the --engine-lifecycle-support option.

If you want to avoid charges associated with RDS Extended Support, set the --engine-lifecycle-support option to open-source-rds-extended-support-disabled. By default, this option is set to open-source-rds-extended-support.

You can also specify this value using the following AWS CLI commands:

When you use the RestoreDBClusterFromSnapshot RDS API operation, select RDS Extended Support by setting the EngineLifecycleSupport parameter to open-source-rds-extended-support.

If you want to avoid charges associated with RDS Extended Support, set the EngineLifecycleSupport parameter to open-source-rds-extended-support-disabled. By default, this parameter is set to open-source-rds-extended-support.

You can also specify this value using the following RDS API operations:

For more information about restoring an Aurora DB cluster, follow the instructions for your DB engine in Backing up and restoring an Amazon Aurora DB cluster.