Transfer files from s3 bucket to amazon RDS database

Question

I am trying to load data from the s3 bucket to amazon RDS database. I know this is not the programming question. But I really appreciate help. I have used the code below:

aws rds restore-db-instance-from-s3 ^
--allocated-storage 250 ^ 
--db-instance-identifier myidentifier ^
--db-instance-class db.m4.large ^
--engine mysql ^
--master-user-name masterawsuser ^
--master-user-password masteruserpassword ^
--s3-bucket-name mybucket ^
--s3-ingestion-role-arn arn:aws:iam::account-number:role/rolename ^
--s3-prefix bucketprefix ^
--source-engine mysql ^
--source-engine-version 5.6.27

But I am getting the below error, though I have given correct ARN number:

“An error occurred (InvalidParameterValue) when calling the   RestoreDBInstanceFrom S3 operation: IAM role ARN value is invalid or does not include the   required permissions for: S3_SNAPSHOT_INGESTION”

Any comments on this?

Thanks

Answer 1

I'm late to the game, but this is the #1 hit on Google and I spent about an hour figuring this problem out.

That error message is a bit misleading. It has nothing to do with the role or policies that you have attached to RDS. In my case, the account I was logged in as did not use a role with the proper permissions. In AWS IAM, I added the policies AmazonS3FullAccess and AmazonRDSFullAccess to my user account (well, actually added them to my assumed role because I'm using a Federated Corporate Access).

Once I did that, the error message disappeared and I was able to restore from S3