Cross Region Dynamodb Backups

I’ve been using DynamoDB recently for a few projects and ran into something that I didn’t really expect to be a problem, but there wasn’t an out-of-the-box solution. Cross Region Snapshots It seems that while you can do point-in-time recovery and create manual snapshots, there is no way to copy these snapshots to another region. There does however exist a process to restore a database from a snapshot from another region. Of course this doesn’t help when that region no longer exists (for whatever reason that maybe). Read more