How to create a snapshot for Aurora Serverless V1

[ClaudenirFreitas]

Hi all,
I have created a database using Aurora Serverless V1 but cannot create a snapshot via AWS CLI.

# command
      aws rds create-db-snapshot \
        --db-instance-identifier dummy-database \
        --db-snapshot-identifier snaphot \
        --region eu-west-1
        
# output 
An error occurred (DBInstanceNotFound) when calling the CreateDBSnapshot operation: DBInstance not found: dummy-database

When I got this error, I ran the command below:

# command
      aws rds describe-db-instances \
        --region eu-west-1
        
# output 
{
    "DBInstances": [
    ]
}

I did not find a solution for that... can you help me?

[RyanFitzSimmonsAK]

Hi @ClaudenirFreitas, thanks for reaching out. Aurora Serverless V1 databases are created as DB clusters, instead of regular DB instances. To create a snapshot or describe databases, you'd need to use the create-db-cluster-snapshot and describe-db-clusters methods. Let me know if that doesn't work, or if you have any other questions.

[ClaudenirFreitas]

Cool, thanks a lot @RyanFitzSimmonsAK!
It is working as expected.