# Naming Conventions for Snapshots Created by Amazon Web Services

The snapshots created by the Amazon Web services snapshot storage have the following naming conventions.

Snapshot engine | Configuration | Naming convention | Example
--- | --- | --- | ---
Amazon Snapshot Engine | RDS snapshot | InstanceName-Region-TimeStamp | Orcl-us-east-1-20170425t204551z
EBS snapshot | The name of the EBS snapshot cannot be specified. The name is uniquely defined by AWS. | snap-0a1b033b1430b3b05

where:

- InstanceName is the RDS or the EBS instance name.

- Region is the region that the snapshot is taken.

- Timestamp.

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