# Copying a DB cluster snapshot with the Amazon Web Services Management Console
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Use the procedures in this topic to copy a DB cluster snapshot. If your source database engine is Aurora, then your snapshot is a DB cluster snapshot. 

For each Amazon account, you can copy up to five DB cluster snapshots at a time from one Amazon Web Services Region to another. Copying both encrypted and unencrypted DB cluster snapshots is supported. If you copy a DB cluster snapshot to another Amazon Web Services Region, you create a manual DB cluster snapshot that is retained in that Amazon Web Services Region. Copying a DB cluster snapshot out of the source Amazon Web Services Region incurs Amazon RDS data transfer charges. 

After the DB cluster snapshot copy has been created in the new Amazon Web Services Region, the DB cluster snapshot copy behaves the same as all other DB cluster snapshots in that Amazon Web Services Region. 

This procedure works for copying encrypted or unencrypted DB cluster snapshots, in the same Amazon Web Services Region or across Regions.

To cancel a copy operation once it is in progress, delete the target DB cluster snapshot while that DB cluster snapshot is in **copying** status.

Before copying a DB cluster snapshot, review the [Limitations](aurora-copy-snapshot.md#aurora-copy-snapshot.Limitations) and [Considerations for snapshot copying](aurora-copy-snapshot.md#aurora-copy-snapshot.Considerations).

**To copy a DB cluster snapshot**

1. Sign in to the Amazon Web Services Management Console and open the Amazon RDS console at [https://console.amazonaws.cn/rds/](https://console.amazonaws.cn/rds/).

1. In the navigation pane, choose **Snapshots**.

1. Select the DB cluster snapshot you want to copy.

1. Choose **Actions**, and then choose **Copy snapshot**.  
![DB cluster snapshot copy interface with source and destination configuration options.](http://docs.amazonaws.cn/en_us/AmazonRDS/latest/AuroraUserGuide/images/action-copy-db-cluster-snapshot.png)

1. (Optional) To copy the DB cluster snapshot to a different Amazon Web Services Region, choose that Amazon Web Services Region for **Destination Region**.

1. Enter the name of the DB cluster snapshot copy in **New DB Snapshot Identifier**. 

1. To copy tags and values from the snapshot to the copy of the snapshot, choose **Copy Tags**.

1. Choose **Copy Snapshot**.