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I am quiet new to AWS and trying to learn things. I currently have a live production environment and trying to create a test environment. I was able to create an image of an ec2 instance in AWS using the 'Create Image' option in the 'Actions'. Now I am trying to create an image/ duplicate of the RDS Database in AWS in a similar way. Is there any easy way to clone the database so that I don't change any data in the original database and perform modifications only in the test database. Thanks for all your help.

PavitraHiremath
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Probably worth reading up on creating snapshots and restoring from a snapshot.

To give you a quick summary; you will take a snapshot of your production RDS DB instance. Then you will launch a new DB instance from this snapshot.

As long as you don't need to launch the new instance in a separate AWS Account, the documentation should tell you all you need to know.

GreenyMcDuff
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  • Thank you for your help. I was able to create the duplicate DB from the original DB Instance. For connecting this duplicate DB, except the end-point(DB_host), would everything be the same as that of the original instance(I mean DB _name, DB_username, DB_Password )? – PavitraHiremath Nov 17 '19 at 08:17
  • Not necessarily. You can specify those values when you launch the new DB instance from the snapshot. – GreenyMcDuff Nov 17 '19 at 08:27
  • Thank you for the help. Was able to successfully do the changes. – PavitraHiremath Nov 18 '19 at 23:13
  • Excellent. Now I know this sounds like I'm rep hunting... but if you found the answer useful don't forget to accept it (tick) and up-vote it. This helps others in the community who are facing the same problem as you :) – GreenyMcDuff Nov 19 '19 at 09:51