Your company has a set of AWS RDS Instances. Your management has asked you to disable Automated backups to save on cost. When you disable automated backups for AWS RDS, what are you compromising on?

Answer options:

A.Nothing,you are actually saving resources on aws
B.You are disabling the point-in-time recovery.
C.Nothing really, you can still take manual backups.
D.You cannot disable automated backups in RDS.

Answer – B
Amazon RDS creates a storage volume snapshot of your DB instance, backing up the entire DB instance, not just individual databases. You can set the backup retention period when you create a DB instance. If you don`t set the backup retention period, Amazon RDS uses a default period retention period of one day. You can modify the backup retention period; valid values are 0 (for no backup retention) to a maximum of 35 days.
Automatic Backups are taken daily when we specify the point in time recovery feature that enables the recovery of the database at any point in time. AWS applies the transaction logs to the most appropriate DB backup. At the same time, DB snapshots are a manual thing where we user manually triggers the backup and then restores it from the desired time period.
You will also specifically see AWS mentioning the risk of not allowing automated backups.
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/USER_WorkingWithAutomatedBackups.html#USER_WorkingWithAutomatedBackups.Disabling
Important
We highly discourage disabling automated backups because it disables point-in-time recovery. If you disable and then re-enable automated backups, you can only restore starting from the time you re-enabled automated backups. 
Manual snapshots are user-initiated backups of your instance stored in Amazon S3 that are kept until you explicitly delete them. You can create a new instance from a database snapshot whenever you desire. Although database snapshots serve operationally as full backups, you are billed only for incremental storage use.
Because of the risk which is clearly mentioned in the AWS Documentation, all other options are incorrect.
For more information on Automated backups, please visit
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/USER_WorkingWithAutomatedBackups.html