Stopping an Automatically Started Database Instance with Amazon RDS
Customers needing to keep an Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) instance stopped for more than 7 days, look for ways to efficiently re-stop the database after being automatically started by Amazon RDS. If the database is started and there is no mechanism to stop it; customers start to pay for the instance’s hourly cost. Moreover, customers with database licensing agreements could incur penalties for running beyond their licensed cores/users. Stopping and starting a DB instance is faster than creating a DB snapshot, and then restoring the snapshot. However, if you plan to keep the Amazon RDS instance stopped for an extended period of time,Read More →