What you'll need to follow this guide: RDS database (Aurora clusters as well) EC2 instance IAM role & policy Concept: If the nightly backup snapshots are too far apart for your comfort, consider incremental snapshots using AWSCLI, leveraging the instance profile attached to an EC2 instance. We will be creating a snapshot that is 3hours old every 3 hours and replacing the prior snapshot so there is no clutter or pages of snapshots you need to weed through.
