Mgiyuk

How to find latest or most recent AWS RDS snapshot? I can call aws rds describe-db-snapshots --db-instance-identifier {my_db_instance} and sort all automated snapshots to find the most recently created one but I was hoping someone has a better idea out there. aws rds describe-db-snapshots --db-instance-identifier {my_db_instance} 4 Answers 4 I know this is old, but I was needing to know the same information and was able to construct the following which will then just give me the snapshot name. It doesn't totally answer your question about emphatically finding the latest snapshot but in this example might give you some better direction. aws rds describe-db-snapshots --db-instance-identifier prd --snapshot-type automated --query "DBSnapshots[?SnapshotCreateTime>='2017-06-05'].DBSnapshotIdentifier" To break it down with the options --db-instance-identifier (put in your insta...