RDS Instance Restore

To restore a DB instance from a snapshot, Veeam Backup for AWS performs the following steps using native AWS capabilities:

1. Creates a DB instance in the specified location.
2. Modifies the configuration setting values of the created DB instance.
3. Restores backed-up databases to the restored DB instance.

To restore an Aurora DB cluster from a snapshot, Veeam Backup for AWS performs the following steps using native AWS capabilities:

1. Creates an Aurora DB cluster in the specified location.
2. Restores backed-up databases to the created Aurora DB cluster.
3. Modifies the configuration setting values of the created Aurora DB cluster.
4. In the created Aurora DB cluster, creates all backed-up DB instances (when restoring to the original location) or creates the primary DB instance (when restoring to a new location).
5. Modifies the configuration setting values of each created DB instance.

To learn how to restore a DB instance or an Aurora DB cluster from a cloud-native snapshot, snapshot replica or an AWS snapshot, see RDS Restore.