Implementing a disaster recovery strategy with Amazon RDS | AWS Database Blog
Amazon RDS (Relational Database Service) is a managed service that makes it easier to set up, operate, and scale a relational database. Based on AWS high performance compute and storage, Amazon RDS supports the MySQL, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, and Oracle database engines. It offers a complete set of solutions for provisioning, patching, monitoring, and disaster recovery (DR). This blog presents three features in Amazon RDS that support DR: automated backups, manual backups, and Read Replicas.