System Requirements for Amazon RDS for MySQL

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

Software Requirements

Packages that are required on access nodes:
- Virtual Server Agent
- MySQL Agent
Access nodes that you run backup and restore operations on must have one of the following operating systems:

Operating system	Processor architecture
Amazon Linux 2 AMI (HVM) - Kernel 5.10, SSD Volume Type	64-bit (Arm) (recommended) 64-bit (x86)
CentOS 8.x, 7.x	x64 Compatible processors
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.x, 7.x	x64 Compatible processors
Windows 2019, 2016, 2012	x64 Compatible processors

Note

If you have network configuration enabled on the access nodes, before you deploy the 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.

Supported MySQL Versions

MySQL 8.0.x
MySQL 5.7.x

User Account Requirements

The MySQL user account must have the following minimum permissions to perform cloud based backup and restore operations using dump-based solutions:

SELECT
INSERT
UPDATE
DELETE
CREATE
DROP
RELOAD
PROCESS
REFERENCES
ALTER
SHOW DATABASES
CREATE TEMPORARY TABLES
INDEX

LOCK TABLES
EXECUTE
REPLICATION
SLAVE
REPLICATION CLIENT
CREATE VIEW
SHOW VIEW
CREATE ROUTINE
ALTER ROUTINE
CREATE USER
EVENT
TRIGGER ON

Example:

CREATE USER 'new_master_user'@'%' IDENTIFIED BY 'StrongPassword!';
GRANT SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, CREATE, DROP, RELOAD, PROCESS, REFERENCES, INDEX, ALTER, SHOW DATABASES, CREATE TEMPORARY TABLES, LOCK TABLES, EXECUTE, REPLICATION SLAVE, REPLICATION CLIENT, CREATE VIEW, SHOW VIEW, CREATE ROUTINE, ALTER ROUTINE, CREATE USER, EVENT, TRIGGER ON *.* TO 'new_master_user'@'%' WITH GRANT OPTION;
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

SSL and TLS Support

SSL is supported for MySQL version 5.7 and later. The supported TLS versions to create Amazon SSL encrypted MySQL instances are TLS 1.0, 1.1 and 1.2.