How to restore a snapshot on AWS RDS
Amazon RDS creates a storage volume snapshot of your DB instance, backing up the entire DB instance and not just individual databases.
You can create a new DB instance by restoring from a DB snapshot. You provide the name of the DB snapshot to restore from, and then provide a name for the new DB instance that is created from the restore.
You can't restore from a DB snapshot to an existing DB instance; a new DB instance is created when you restore.
Steps
To restore a DB instance from a DB snapshot
Sign in to the AWS Management Console and open the Amazon RDS console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/rds/.
In the navigation pane, choose Snapshots.
Choose the DB snapshot that you want to restore from.
For Actions, choose Restore snapshot.
On the Restore snapshot page, for DB instance identifier, enter the name for your restored DB instance.
Specify other settings, such as allocated storage size.
For information about each setting, see Settings for DB instances.
Choose Restore DB instance.
Conclusion
Now you know how to restore a snapshot on RDS.
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