System Requirements for Amazon RDS for MariaDB

Verify that your environment meets the system requirements for Amazon RDS for MariaDB.

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

Package 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 2023 AMI	64-bit (ARM) (recommended) 64-bit (x86) Note Supported only from MariaDB 10.5.x onwards
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
Oracle Linux Enterprise 9.x, 8.x, 7.x	x64 Compatible processors
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.x, 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.

Supported MariaDB Versions

MariaDB 11.4.x
MariaDB 10.6.x
MariaDB 10.5.x
MariaDB 10.4.x

SSL and TLS Support

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