Backup, maintenance & recovery

BACKUP

Database Backup

Aurora RDS cluster default backup is configured for 00:00-00:30

User can choose the Backup Retention policy

EC2 Compute Backup

For EC2 backup it is recommended to do regular snapshot backups as described here

MAINTENANCE

Database Maintenance

Default Aurora RDS cluster maintenance window is set to sun:16:00-sun:17:30

EC2 Maintenance

Please refer to this guide to setup EC2 Maintenance windows

RESTORE

Database Restore

To restore Aurora backup refer this link

EC2 Compute Restore

To restore EC2 backup from snapshot refer this link