# Viewing retained automated backups for Amazon Aurora
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To view your retained automated backups in the RDS console, choose **Automated backups** in the navigation pane, then choose **Retained**. To view individual snapshots associated with a retained automated backup, choose **Snapshots** in the navigation pane. Alternatively, you can describe individual snapshots associated with a retained automated backup. From there, you can restore a DB instance directly from one of those snapshots.

To describe your retained automated backups using the AWS CLI, use the following command:

```
aws rds describe-db-cluster-automated-backups --db-cluster-resource-id DB_cluster_resource_ID
```

To describe your retained automated backups using the RDS API, call the [https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/APIReference/API_DescribeDBClusterAutomatedBackups.html](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/APIReference/API_DescribeDBClusterAutomatedBackups.html) action with the `DbClusterResourceId` parameter.