Backups, Restores and Snapshots
- Backup of the RDS database is referred as Snapshot.
- Manual backup of RDS
- Create Snapshot:

- Create Snapshot:
- System Backup: Enabled by selecting the backup options in the RDS instance

- Automated Backups: System snapshots are result of the Automated backups configured in RDS

- Exporting Snapshot to Amazon S3
Amazon Aurora
- This is a cloud optimized MySQL and PostgreSQL compatible relational database.

- On average, we get upto five times the increase in performance by running an Aurora mysql compared to regular mysql
