Managing manual backups - Amazon Relational Database Service
This documentation is a draft for private preview for regions in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud. Documentation content will continue to evolve. Published: January 10, 2026.

Managing manual backups

This section shows how to manage manual backups for DB instances and DB clusters.

For information about creating a DB snapshot for a Single-AZ DB instance, see Creating a DB snapshot for a Single-AZ DB instance for Amazon RDS.

For information about creating a DB snapshot for a Multi-AZ DB cluster, see Creating a Multi-AZ DB cluster snapshot for Amazon RDS.

For information about deleting a DB snapshot, see Deleting a DB snapshot for Amazon RDS.