Configuring backups and running restores

RDS offers a fully managed backup service that will support the rapid restoration and recovery of your databases. These backups can also be used to support making copies of your database to be used in a different account or region. This is also called cross-region or cross-account cloning. Let's start by looking at RDS automated backups in more depth.

RDS automated backups

AWS manages standard backups for you unless you specifically configure it not to. The backups are taken when the database is running, and they do not cause any downtime. Backups can cause performance overhead as they add additional work to the RDS instance. Due to this, backups are run during backup windows. They are given a default time slot that can be customized if required, typically to avoid peak operating hours. Each RDS instance is allocated the same amount of backup storage as the instance storage, so if you create an RDS instance with 20 GB of storage,...