# Using Amazon Backup to manage automated backups for Amazon RDS
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Amazon Backup is a fully managed backup service that makes it easy to centralize and automate the backup of data across Amazon services in the cloud and on premises. You can manage backups of your Amazon RDS databases in Amazon Backup.

**Note**  
Backups managed by Amazon Backup are considered manual DB snapshots, but don't count toward the DB snapshot quota for RDS. Backups that were created with Amazon Backup have names ending in `awsbackup:{{backup-job-number}}`.

For more information about Amazon Backup, see the [https://docs.amazonaws.cn/aws-backup/latest/devguide](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/aws-backup/latest/devguide).

**To view backups managed by Amazon Backup**

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. Choose the **Backup service** tab.

   Your Amazon Backup backups are listed under **Backup service snapshots**.