In AWS, I have snapshot continually being taken on a daily basis, and I need to be able to view the state of the database at the time a particular snapshot was taken (but I don't want to restore to the snapshot just yet). Is there any way to somehow download the snapshot via something like a mysql dump? Even if this can't be done directly is there a workaround?
Snapshots cannot be downloaded. If you need to download it you should probably do MySQL backups to S3. Those are standard backups that can be used in another MySQL database server.