Can I Access My Aura Instance When I Am Importing A Database Dump file?

When uploading a database dump file from your self-managed server to an Aura instance, you should keep the same Aura instance running when you run the neo4j-admin push-to-cloud (or neo4j-admin database upload in Neo4j Version 5) alternatively, you can import a database dump from the Aura console UI.  
 
The Aura instance will stop during the loading stage, which means you will have downtime when you are uploading a database dump file to an Aura instance.
 
The Loading stage is actually 2 tasks combined together.  First, it will try to upload the database dump file from your self-managed server to Aura (at this stage you still have access to the Aura instance). Second, the Aura instance is doing a database restore based on the dump file you uploaded. (At this stage, the Aura database instance is in offline status and you can not access it until the database restore is completed).