[softdev12]

interesting. i was under the impression you could just create a snapshot (before destroying the environment) and then restore as needed. am i missing something?

Edit: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/USER_R...

[sdroy]

If you can take the database instance offline and if you do not need to access it from outside of the beanstalk app then that is fine.