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Thanks for verifying. &nbsp;I was thinking along your final suggestion so that seems to be the only way at present. &nbsp;I wonder why this restriction is in place, &nbsp;Support I guess.<br />
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Cheers<br />
BT
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Looking to keep control of our MySQL database on our server but to slave a secondary read only instance on AWS. <br />
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Does anyone know if this is technically possible at present or will AWS only slave off another AWS RDB ?<br />
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Thanks<br />
BT
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Looking to keep control of our MySQL database on our server but to slave a secondary read only instance on AWS. 

Does anyone know if this is technically possible at present or will AWS only slave off another AWS RDB ?

Thanks
BT

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