You can create an export with just a few clicks on the Amazon RDS Management Console or using the AWS SDK or CLI. Extracting data from a snapshot doesn’t impact the performance of your database, as the export operation is performed on your snapshot and not your database. The extracted data in Apache Parquet format is portable, so you can consume it with query services such as Amazon Athena or big data processing frameworks such as Apache Spark. For more information, including instructions on getting started, read the Aurora documentation or Amazon RDS documentation.

