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DBS-C01 · Question #132

A company recently acquired a new business. A database specialist must migrate an unencrypted 12 TB Amazon RDS for MySQL DB instance to a new AWS account. The database specialist needs to minimize…

The correct answer is A. Create a snapshot of the source DB instance in the source account. Sharing an unencrypted manual DB snapshot enables authorized AWS accounts to directly restore a DB instance from the snapshot instead of taking a copy of it and restoring from that. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/USER_ShareSnapshot.html However Resource…

Submitted by stefanr· Mar 6, 2026Deployment and Migration

Question

A company recently acquired a new business. A database specialist must migrate an unencrypted 12 TB Amazon RDS for MySQL DB instance to a new AWS account. The database specialist needs to minimize the amount of time required to migrate the database. Which solution meets these requirements?

Options

  • ACreate a snapshot of the source DB instance in the source account.
  • BUse AWS Resource Access Manager to share the source DB instance with the destination
  • CCreate a read replica of the DB instance.
  • DUse mysqldump to back up the source database.

How the community answered

(35 responses)
  • A
    83% (29)
  • B
    3% (1)
  • C
    11% (4)
  • D
    3% (1)

Explanation

Sharing an unencrypted manual DB snapshot enables authorized AWS accounts to directly restore a DB instance from the snapshot instead of taking a copy of it and restoring from that. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/USER_ShareSnapshot.html However Resource Access Manager could not share non-Aurora cluster. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ram/latest/userguide/shareable.html

Topics

#RDS migration#Cross-account migration#MySQL#Large database migration

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