System Requirements for Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL

To back up and restore PostgreSQL data on the Amazon cloud application, verify that your environment has the required software and a firewall.

Before Configuring Backups, Verify Backup Gateway Region and Access to the Database

Before configuring backups of the database, do the following:

Verify that the AWS backup gateway is deployed in the same region and VPC as the AWS database.
Verify that the AWS backup gateway can access the AWS databases. For more information, go to Automatically connecting an EC2 instance and an RDS database on the Amazon RDS website.
See the following:
- System Requirements for AWS Backup Gateways
- For instructions to create an AWS backup gateway, which is part of configuring backups, see the "Configuring Backups" page for the database, under AWS Cloud Databases. For example, Configuring Backups for Amazon DocumentDB Instances.

Software Requirements

Packages required on access nodes:
- Virtual Server Agent
- PostgreSQL Agent
For information on supported Amazon EC2 instances as access nodes, see Supported Amazon EC2 Instance Families.
Access nodes that you run backup and restore operations on must have one of the following operating systems:

Operating system	Processor architecture
Amazon Linux 2023 AMI	64-bit (Arm) (recommended) 64-bit (x86)
Amazon Linux 2 AMI (HVM) - Kernel 5.10, SSD Volume Type	64-bit (Arm) (recommended) 64-bit (x86)
CentOS 9.x, 8.x	x64 Compatible processors
Oracle Linux Enterprise 9.x, 8.x	x64 Compatible processors
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9.x, 8.x	x64 Compatible processors
Rocky Linux 9.x, 8.x	x64 Compatible processors
Windows 2022, 2019, 2016	x64 Compatible processors

Note

If you have network configuration enabled on the access nodes, before you deploy a Windows or a Linux proxy, configure a firewall on the cloud proxy and on-premises. For more information, see Configuring a Firewall to Install the Virtual Server Agent on a Cloud VM or Instance.
Amazon Linux 2023 on 64-bit (Arm) and 64-bit (x86) are supported for PostgreSQL 15.x, 16.x and 17.x only. For more information, go to AWS documentation on supported packages.
Containers can serve as access nodes as long as the PostgreSQL server is accessible from the container environment. For more information about setting up an access node container, see Installing Commvault Packages in Kubernetes Using Helm.

Hard Drive

A minimum of 100 GB of disk space is recommended. If a staging directory is required on the access node, the actual space needed will depend on the database being backed up and the configured settings.

Network Connectivity

Access nodes must have Layer 3 network connectivity to the upstream MediaAgent on port 8403. If the MediaAgent and the access node are in different accounts or in different Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs), you can configure Amazon VPC peering. For information, see VPC peering basics in the AWS documentation.
Access nodes must have connectivity to regional and global AWS service endpoints. For information, see Requirements for Connectivity to AWS Service Endpoints.
Access node machines must be able to connect to the RDS instance over its database port (For example, 5432 for PostgreSQL), unless a custom port is configured.

Supported PostgreSQL Versions

From PostgreSQL version 12.x - 18.x.

Note

The PostgreSQL version 15.x support is added with Commvault Maintenance Release 11.32.16 (or a more recent version).
The PostgreSQL version 16.x support is added with Commvault Maintenance Release 11.32.55 (or a more recent version).
The PostgreSQL version 17.x support is added with Commvault Maintenance Release 11.36.32 (or a more recent version).
The PostgreSQL version 18.x support is added with Commvault Maintenance Release 11.42.41 (or a more recent version).

SSL and TLS Support

The supported TLS versions to create Amazon SSL encrypted PostgreSQL instances are TLS 1.0, 1.1 and 1.2.