# Managing manual backups
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This section shows how to manage manual backups for DB instances and DB clusters.

For information about creating a DB snapshot for a Single-AZ DB instance, see [Creating a DB snapshot for a Single-AZ DB instance for Amazon RDS](USER_CreateSnapshot.md).

For information about creating a DB snapshot for a Multi-AZ DB cluster, see [Creating a Multi-AZ DB cluster snapshot for Amazon RDS](USER_CreateMultiAZDBClusterSnapshot.md).

For information about deleting a DB snapshot, see [Deleting a DB snapshot for Amazon RDS](USER_DeleteSnapshot.md).