Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports snapshots on read replicas

T1Covered by 1 source · first reported by AWS — What's New / News Blog at 19 Oct, 07:01 UTC

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server now supports creating DB snapshots directly on read replica instances. Previously, you could create snapshots only on standalone and primary DB instances. You can now snapshot a read replica without promoting it first, giving you more…