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Remediation

Enable Copy Tags to Snapshot for an RDS Cluster​

To ensure that RDS snapshots consistently inherit the same tags as their parent database clusters, enable the Copy Tags to Snapshot setting. This helps maintain consistent cost allocation, data classification, and access control across both active database resources and their backups.

This configuration change can be applied at the cluster level and affects all future snapshots created for the cluster.

From Command Line​

Use the following AWS CLI command to enable tag propagation to snapshots for the specified RDS cluster:

aws rds modify-db-cluster \
    --db-cluster-identifier {{db-cluster-id}} \
    --copy-tags-to-snapshot \
    --apply-immediately

Considerations​

  • This setting applies only to snapshots created after the configuration change; existing snapshots are not updated.
  • The change does not require downtime and can be applied immediately.