---
title: "Migrating AWS RDS Postgre Instance with Python"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/migrating-aws-rds-postgre-instance-with-python-oca15yvsb
source_url: https://awstip.com/migrating-aws-rds-postgre-instance-with-python-897d3408ed2f
type: article
source: "AWS Tip"
published: 2024-04-08T19:09:45.826Z
updated: 2024-05-09T08:20:02.615Z
tags: ["aws", "python", "postgresql", "aws-rds", "boto3"]
reading_time: 1
upvotes: 3
comments: 1
language: en
---

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# Migrating AWS RDS Postgre Instance with Python

**[AWS Tip](https://daily.dev/sources/awstip)** · 1 min read · 3 upvotes · 1 comments

## Summary

Learn how to migrate AWS RDS Postgres database instances with Python. Reduce allocated storage, restore from backup, and automate the process using boto3.

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## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@budosen** · 0 upvotes

> interesting, i assume this one should work with moving from rds to ec2 instance right? and it's clever way. but maybe adding additional checking for indexes or key will do much help. because that two things can take more time to be fully imported

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