Performing RDS Backup

One backup policy can be used to process one or more RDS resources within one AWS account. The scope of data that you can protect in an AWS account is limited by permissions of an IAM role that is specified in the backup policy settings.

Before you create an RDS backup policy, check the following prerequisites:

• If you plan to create image-level backups of RDS resources, backup infrastructure components that will take part in the backup process must be added to the backup infrastructure and configured properly. These include backup repositories and worker instances.
• If you plan to receive email notifications on RDS backup policy results, configure email notification settings first. For more information, see Configuring Global Notification Settings.

To schedule data protection tasks to run automatically, create backup policies. For each protected DB instance and Aurora DB cluster, you can also take a cloud-native snapshot manually when needed.