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Last active June 8, 2021 05:19
AWS Lambda job to backup RDS instances
import boto3
import datetime
def lambda_handler(event, context):
print("Connecting to RDS")
client = boto3.client('rds')
print("RDS snapshot backups stated at %s...\n" % datetime.datetime.now())
client.create_db_snapshot(
DBInstanceIdentifier='web-platform-slave',