Exporting a snapshot - Amazon MemoryDB
Step 1: Create an Amazon S3 bucketStep 2: Grant MemoryDB access to your Amazon S3 bucketStep 3: Export a MemoryDB snapshot

Exporting a snapshot

MemoryDB supports exporting your MemoryDB snapshot to an Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) bucket, which gives you access to it from outside MemoryDB. Exported MemoryDB snapshots are fully-compliant with Valkey and open-source Redis OSS and can be loaded with the appropriate version or tooling. You can export a snapshot using the MemoryDB console, the AWS CLI, or the MemoryDB API.

Exporting a snapshot can be helpful if you need to launch a cluster in another AWS Region. You can export your data in one AWS Region, copy the .rdb file to the new AWS Region, and then use that .rdb file to seed the new cluster instead of waiting for the new cluster to populate through use. For information about seeding a new cluster, see Seeding a new cluster with an externally created snapshot. Another reason you might want to export your cluster's data is to use the .rdb file for offline processing.

Important

  • The MemoryDB snapshot and the Amazon S3 bucket that you want to copy it to must be in the same AWS Region.

    Though snapshots copied to an Amazon S3 bucket are encrypted, we strongly recommend that you do not grant others access to the Amazon S3 bucket where you want to store your snapshots.

  • Exporting a snapshot to Amazon S3 is not supported for clusters using data tiering. For more information, see Data tiering.

Before you can export a snapshot to an Amazon S3 bucket, you must have an Amazon S3 bucket in the same AWS Region as the snapshot. Grant MemoryDB access to the bucket. The first two steps show you how to do this.

Warning

The following scenarios expose your data in ways that you might not want:

  • When another person has access to the Amazon S3 bucket that you exported your snapshot to.

    To control access to your snapshots, only allow access to the Amazon S3 bucket to those whom you want to access your data. For information about managing access to an Amazon S3 bucket, see Managing access in the Amazon S3 Developer Guide.

  • When another person has permissions to use the CopySnapshot API operation.

    Users or groups that have permissions to use the CopySnapshot API operation can create their own Amazon S3 buckets and copy snapshots to them. To control access to your snapshots, use an AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policy to control who has the ability to use the CopySnapshot API. For more information about using IAM to control the use of MemoryDB API operations, see Identity and access management in MemoryDB in the MemoryDB User Guide.

Step 1: Create an Amazon S3 bucket

The following procedure uses the Amazon S3 console to create an Amazon S3 bucket where you export and store your MemoryDB snapshot.

To create an Amazon S3 bucket

  1. Sign in to the AWS Management Console and open the Amazon S3 console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/s3/.

  2. Choose Create Bucket.

  3. In Create a Bucket - Select a Bucket Name and Region, do the following:

    1. In Bucket Name, type a name for your Amazon S3 bucket.

    2. From the Region list, choose an AWS Region for your Amazon S3 bucket. This AWS Region must be the same AWS Region as the MemoryDB snapshot you want to export.

    3. Choose Create.

For more information about creating an Amazon S3 bucket, see Creating a bucket in the Amazon Simple Storage Service User Guide.

Step 2: Grant MemoryDB access to your Amazon S3 bucket

AWS Regions introduced before March 20, 2019, are enabled by default. You can begin working in these AWS Regions immediately. Regions introduced after March 20, 2019 are disabled by default. You must enable, or opt in, to these Regions before you can use them, as described in Managing AWS regions.

Grant MemoryDB access to your S3 Bucket in an AWS Region

To create the proper permissions on an Amazon S3 bucket in an AWS Region, take the following steps.

To grant MemoryDB access to an S3 bucket

  1. Sign in to the AWS Management Console and open the Amazon S3 console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/s3/.

  2. Choose the name of the Amazon S3 bucket that you want to copy the snapshot to. This should be the S3 bucket that you created in Step 1: Create an Amazon S3 bucket.

  3. Choose the Permissions tab and under Permissions, choose Bucket policy.

  4. Update the policy to grant MemoryDB required permissions to perform operations:

    • Add [ "Service" : "region-full-name.memorydb-snapshot.amazonaws.com" ] to Principal.

    • Add the following permissions required for exporting a snapshot to the Amazon S3 bucket.

      • "s3:PutObject"

      • "s3:GetObject"

      • "s3:ListBucket"

      • "s3:GetBucketAcl"

      • "s3:ListMultipartUploadParts"

      • "s3:ListBucketMultipartUploads"

    The following is an example of what the updated policy might look like.

    {
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Id": "Policy15397346",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Sid": "Stmt15399483",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Principal": {
                "Service": "aws-region.memorydb-snapshot.amazonaws.com"
            },
            "Action": [
                "s3:PutObject",
                "s3:GetObject",
                "s3:ListBucket",
                "s3:GetBucketAcl",
                "s3:ListMultipartUploadParts",
                "s3:ListBucketMultipartUploads"
            ],
            "Resource": [
                "arn:aws:s3:::example-bucket",
                "arn:aws:s3:::example-bucket/*"
            ]
        }
    ]
}

Step 3: Export a MemoryDB snapshot

Now you've created your S3 bucket and granted MemoryDB permissions to access it. Change the S3 Object Ownership to ACLs enabled - Bucket owner preferred. Next, you can use the MemoryDB console, the AWS CLI, or the MemoryDB API to export your snapshot to it. The following assumes that you have the following additional S3 specific IAM permissions.

{
	"Version": "2012-10-17",
	"Statement": [{
		"Effect": "Allow",
		"Action": [
			"s3:GetBucketLocation",
			"s3:ListAllMyBuckets",
			"s3:PutObject",
			"s3:GetObject",
			"s3:DeleteObject",
			"s3:ListBucket"
		],
		"Resource": "arn:aws:s3:::*"
	}]
}

The following process uses the MemoryDB console to export a snapshot to an Amazon S3 bucket so that you can access it from outside MemoryDB. The Amazon S3 bucket must be in the same AWS Region as the MemoryDB snapshot.

To export a MemoryDB snapshot to an Amazon S3 bucket

  1. Sign in to the AWS Management Console and open the MemoryDB console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/memorydb/.

  2. To see a list of your snapshots, from the left navigation pane choose Snapshots.

  3. From the list of snapshots, choose the radio button to the left of the name of the snapshot you want to export.

  4. Choose Copy.

  5. In Create a Copy of the Backup?, do the following:

    1. In New snapshot name box, type a name for your new snapshot.

      The name must be between 1 and 1,000 characters and able to be UTF-8 encoded.

      MemoryDB adds a shard identifier and .rdb to the value that you enter here. For example, if you enter my-exported-snapshot, MemoryDB creates my-exported-snapshot-0001.rdb.

    2. From the Target S3 Location list, choose the name of the Amazon S3 bucket that you want to copy your snapshot to (the bucket that you created in Step 1: Create an Amazon S3 bucket).

      The Target S3 Location must be an Amazon S3 bucket in the snapshot's AWS Region with the following permissions for the export process to succeed.

      • Object access – Read and Write.

      • Permissions access – Read.

      For more information, see Step 2: Grant MemoryDB access to your Amazon S3 bucket.

    3. Choose Copy.

Note

If your S3 bucket does not have the permissions needed for MemoryDB to export a snapshot to it, you receive one of the following error messages. Return to Step 2: Grant MemoryDB access to your Amazon S3 bucket to add the permissions specified and retry exporting your snapshot.

  • MemoryDB has not been granted READ permissions %s on the S3 Bucket.

    Solution: Add Read permissions on the bucket.

  • MemoryDB has not been granted WRITE permissions %s on the S3 Bucket.

    Solution: Add Write permissions on the bucket.

  • MemoryDB has not been granted READ_ACP permissions %s on the S3 Bucket.

    Solution: Add Read for Permissions access on the bucket.

If you want to copy your snapshot to another AWS Region, use Amazon S3 to copy it. For more information, see Copying objects in the Amazon Simple Storage Service User Guide.

Export the snapshot to an Amazon S3 bucket using the copy-snapshot CLI operation with the following parameters:

Parameters

  • --source-snapshot-name – Name of the snapshot to be copied.

  • --target-snapshot-name – Name of the snapshot's copy.

    The name must be between 1 and 1,000 characters and able to be UTF-8 encoded.

    MemoryDB adds a shard identifier and .rdb to the value you enter here. For example, if you enter my-exported-snapshot, MemoryDB creates my-exported-snapshot-0001.rdb.

  • --target-bucket – Name of the Amazon S3 bucket where you want to export the snapshot. A copy of the snapshot is made in the specified bucket.

    The --target-bucket must be an Amazon S3 bucket in the snapshot's AWS Region with the following permissions for the export process to succeed.

    • Object access – Read and Write.

    • Permissions access – Read.

    For more information, see Step 2: Grant MemoryDB access to your Amazon S3 bucket.

The following operation copies a snapshot to my-s3-bucket.

For Linux, macOS, or Unix:

aws memorydb copy-snapshot \
    --source-snapshot-name automatic.my-primary-2021-06-27-03-15 \
    --target-snapshot-name my-exported-snapshot \
    --target-bucket my-s3-bucket

For Windows:

aws memorydb copy-snapshot ^
    --source-snapshot-name automatic.my-primary-2021-06-27-03-15 ^
    --target-snapshot-name my-exported-snapshot ^
    --target-bucket my-s3-bucket
Note

If your S3 bucket does not have the permissions needed for MemoryDB to export a snapshot to it, you receive one of the following error messages. Return to Step 2: Grant MemoryDB access to your Amazon S3 bucket to add the permissions specified and retry exporting your snapshot.

  • MemoryDB has not been granted READ permissions %s on the S3 Bucket.

    Solution: Add Read permissions on the bucket.

  • MemoryDB has not been granted WRITE permissions %s on the S3 Bucket.

    Solution: Add Write permissions on the bucket.

  • MemoryDB has not been granted READ_ACP permissions %s on the S3 Bucket.

    Solution: Add Read for Permissions access on the bucket.

For more information, see copy-snapshot in the AWS CLI Command Reference.

If you want to copy your snapshot to another AWS Region, use Amazon S3 copy. For more information, see Copying objects in the Amazon Simple Storage Service User Guide.

Export the snapshot to an Amazon S3 bucket using the CopySnapshot API operation with these parameters.

Parameters

  • SourceSnapshotName – Name of the snapshot to be copied.

  • TargetSnapshotName – Name of the snapshot's copy.

    The name must be between 1 and 1,000 characters and able to be UTF-8 encoded.

    MemoryDB adds a shard identifier and .rdb to the value that you enter here. For example, if you enter my-exported-snapshot, you get my-exported-snapshot-0001.rdb.

  • TargetBucket – Name of the Amazon S3 bucket where you want to export the snapshot. A copy of the snapshot is made in the specified bucket.

    The TargetBucket must be an Amazon S3 bucket in the snapshot's AWS Region with the following permissions for the export process to succeed.

    • Object access – Read and Write.

    • Permissions access – Read.

    For more information, see Step 2: Grant MemoryDB access to your Amazon S3 bucket.

The following example makes a copy of an automatic snapshot to the Amazon S3 bucket my-s3-bucket.

https://memory-db.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/
    ?Action=CopySnapshot
    &SourceSnapshotName=automatic.my-primary-2021-06-27-03-15
    &TargetBucket=my-s3-bucket
    &TargetSnapshotName=my-snapshot-copy
    &SignatureVersion=4
    &SignatureMethod=HmacSHA256
    &Timestamp=20210801T220302Z
    &Version=2021-01-01
    &X-Amz-Algorithm=Amazon4-HMAC-SHA256
    &X-Amz-Date=20210801T220302Z
    &X-Amz-SignedHeaders=Host
    &X-Amz-Expires=20210801T220302Z
    &X-Amz-Credential=<credential>
    &X-Amz-Signature=<signature>
Note

If your S3 bucket does not have the permissions needed for MemoryDB to export a snapshot to it, you receive one of the following error messages. Return to Step 2: Grant MemoryDB access to your Amazon S3 bucket to add the permissions specified and retry exporting your snapshot.

  • MemoryDB has not been granted READ permissions %s on the S3 Bucket.

    Solution: Add Read permissions on the bucket.

  • MemoryDB has not been granted WRITE permissions %s on the S3 Bucket.

    Solution: Add Write permissions on the bucket.

  • MemoryDB has not been granted READ_ACP permissions %s on the S3 Bucket.

    Solution: Add Read for Permissions access on the bucket.

For more information, see CopySnapshot.

If you want to copy your snapshot to another AWS Region, use Amazon S3 copy to copy the exported snapshot to the Amazon S3 bucket in another AWS Region. For more information, see Copying objects in the Amazon Simple Storage Service User Guide.