What is the name of the process for creating a new DB from an exported snapshot? I need to set up an automated process that:

creates a snapshot of an AWS RDS (MySQL) DB
uses that snapshot to create a new RDS instance that will be used as an &quot;analytics playground&quot;

I'm looking for the proper name to call the process described in step 2 above. So I ask: what would the DBA community call the process of using a DB snapshot (export) to create a brand new database? Materializing? Restoring? Backing up? Something else?
If you are just looking for nomenclature to name the process, I would call it

DB Sandbox Provisioning
DB Self-Service Provisioning
DB Self-Service

If you need an actual process supplied by Amazon, you could look into

AWS Control Tower
AWS Service Catalog

If you are planning to script this yourself, there is always the AWS CLI.

create-db-snapshot
restore-db-instance-from-db-snapshot

Check out the Amazon Docs for further info.