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title: "How to migrate a Postgres Database to AWS RDS"
date: 2017-12-05T21:58:43+00:00
author: "poornerd"
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[<img src="https://www.poornerd.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Screen-Shot-2017-12-05-at-22.34.18-300x227.png" alt="Screen Shot 2017-12-05 at 22.34.18" width="300" height="227" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-592" srcset="https://www.poornerd.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Screen-Shot-2017-12-05-at-22.34.18-300x227.png 300w, https://www.poornerd.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Screen-Shot-2017-12-05-at-22.34.18-768x582.png 768w, https://www.poornerd.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Screen-Shot-2017-12-05-at-22.34.18-1024x776.png 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" />](https://www.poornerd.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Screen-Shot-2017-12-05-at-22.34.18.png)It&#8217;s really not that hard. I just created a free-tier AWS RDS &#8211; Postgres database on AWS, and waited a bit until it was created.
  
Then I connected to the database with my Postgres client, and restored my database which I created from a local database.
  
It just worked!