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Reputation: 11

How are AWS snapshots persisted?

While trying to set a restored snapshot to keep from backing-up after launch, discovered that amazon automatically sets the backup retention period. It is not until after the instance is launched that I can set the backup retention period to zero.

In the AWS C# SDK documentation, the only case that states that the backup retention period cannot be set to zero is when the instance is a read replica. So in that case, why cannot I not set the backup retention period to zero on launch? Is the snapshot persisted on a disk somewhere? Or is it a running read replica kept alive to make restores faster?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 67

Answers (1)

Mmarti8895
Mmarti8895

Reputation: 11

This turned out to be a bug with Terraform and was solved in the version 1.38.0 of the AWS Provider. Reference is below: https://github.com/terraform-providers/terraform-provider-aws/issues/5139

Upvotes: 1

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