- What's New
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Getting Started
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User Guide
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Working with RDS for MySQL
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Instance Modifications
- Upgrading a Minor Version
- Changing a DB Instance Name
- Changing a DB Instance Description
- Changing the Replication Mode
- Changing the Failover Priority
- Changing a DB Instance Class
- Scaling Up Storage Space
- Configuring Storage Autoscaling
- Changing the Maintenance Window
- Changing a DB Instance Type from Single to Primary/Standby
- Promoting a Read Replica to Primary
- Manually Switching Between Primary and Standby DB Instances
- Changing the AZ of a Standby DB Instance
- Read Replicas
- Data Backups
- Data Restorations
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Parameter Templates
- Creating a Parameter Template
- Modifying Parameters of an RDS for MySQL Instance
- Exporting a Parameter Template
- Comparing Parameter Templates
- Viewing Parameter Change History
- Replicating a Parameter Template
- Resetting a Parameter Template
- Applying a Parameter Template
- Viewing Application Records of a Parameter Template
- Modifying a Parameter Template Description
- Deleting a Parameter Template
- Connection Management
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Database Proxy (Read/Write Splitting)
- Introducing Read/Write Splitting
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- Enabling Read/Write Splitting
- Configuring Transaction Splitting
- Configuring Connection Pools
- Configuring Multi-Statement Processing Modes
- Changing a Proxy from Pay-per-Use to Yearly/Monthly
- Configuring the Delay Threshold and Routing Policy
- Changing the Read/Write Splitting Address
- Changing the Read/Write Splitting Port
- Changing the Instance Class of a DB Proxy Instance
- Changing the Number of Proxy Nodes
- Upgrading the Kernel Version of Database Proxy
- Enabling or Disabling Access Control
- Restarting a Database Proxy
- Modifying Read/Write Splitting Parameters
- Disabling Read/Write Splitting
- Testing Read/Write Splitting Performance
- Database Management
- Account Management (Non-Administrator)
- Account and Network Security
- Metrics
- Interconnection with CTS
- Log Management
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- Managing Tags
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Working with RDS for MariaDB
- Suggestions on Using RDS for MariaDB
- Instance Connection
- Parameter Tuning
- Instance Lifecycle
- Instance Modifications
- Read Replicas
- Data Backups
- Data Restorations
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Parameter Templates
- Creating a Parameter Template
- Modifying RDS for MariaDB Instance Parameters
- Exporting a Parameter Template
- Importing a Parameter Template
- Comparing Parameter Templates
- Viewing Parameter Change History
- Replicating a Parameter Template
- Resetting a Parameter Template
- Applying a Parameter Template
- Viewing Application Records of a Parameter Template
- Modifying a Parameter Template Description
- Deleting a Parameter Template
- Connection Management
- Database Management
- Account Management (Non-Administrator)
- Account and Network Security
- Metrics
- Interconnection with CTS
- Log Management
- Task Center
- Managing Tags
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Working with RDS for PostgreSQL
- Suggestions on Using RDS for PostgreSQL
- Database Migration
- Performance Tuning
- Instance Lifecycle
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Instance Modifications
- Upgrading a Minor Version
- Changing a DB Instance Name
- Changing a DB Instance Description
- Changing the Replication Mode
- Changing the Failover Priority
- Changing a DB Instance Class
- Scaling Storage Space
- Changing the Maintenance Window
- Changing a DB Instance Type from Single to Primary/Standby
- Manually Switching Between Primary and Standby DB Instances
- Changing the AZ of a Standby DB Instance
- Read Replicas
- Data Backups
- Data Restorations
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Parameter Templates
- Creating a Parameter Template
- Modifying Parameters of an RDS for PostgreSQL Instance
- Exporting a Parameter Template
- Comparing Parameter Templates
- Viewing Parameter Change History
- Replicating a Parameter Template
- Resetting a Parameter Template
- Applying a Parameter Template
- Viewing Application Records of a Parameter Template
- Modifying a Parameter Template Description
- Deleting a Parameter Template
- Connection Management
- Extension Management
- Tablespace Management
- Account and Network Security
- Metrics
- Interconnection with CTS
- Log Management
- Task Center
- Billing Management
- Major Version Upgrade
- Managing Tags
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Working with RDS for MySQL
- Best Practices
- Performance White Paper
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API Reference
- Before You Start
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API v3 (Recommended)
- Querying Version Information About APIs
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DB Instance Management
- Creating a DB Instance
- Stopping an Instance
- Changing a DB Instance Name
- Changing the Description of a DB Instance
- Changing DB Instance Specifications
- Scaling Up Storage Space of a DB Instance
- Changing a Single DB Instance to Primary/Standby DB Instances
- Rebooting a DB Instance
- Deleting a DB Instance
- Querying DB Instances
- Binding and Unbinding an EIP
- Changing the Failover Priority
- Manually Switching Primary/Standby DB Instances
- Changing the Data Replication Mode of Primary/Standby DB Instances
- Configuring the Maintenance Window
- Database Security
- Backup and Restoration
- Log Information Queries
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Database and Account Management (MySQL)
- Creating a Database
- Querying Details About a Database
- Querying Databases
- Querying Authorized Databases of a Specified User
- Deleting a Database
- Creating a Database Account
- Querying Database Users
- Querying Authorized Users of a Specified Database
- Deleting a Database Account
- Configuring a Password for a Database Account
- Authorizing a Database Account
- Revoking Permissions of a Database Account
- Resetting the Password for User root
- Database and Account Management (PostgreSQL)
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Parameter Management
- Obtaining a Parameter Template List
- Creating a Parameter Template
- Modifying a Parameter Template
- Applying a Parameter Template
- Modifying Parameters of a Specified DB Instance
- Obtaining the Parameter Template of a Specified DB Instance
- Obtaining Parameters in a Specified Parameter Template
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FAQs
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Database Connection
- What Should I Do If I Can't Connect to My RDS DB Instance?
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- What Do I Do If the Number of RDS Database Connections Reaches the Upper Limit?
- What Is the Maximum Number of Connections to an RDS DB Instance?
- How Can I Create and Connect to an ECS?
- What Should I Do If an ECS Cannot Connect to an RDS DB Instance Through a Private Network?
- What Should I Do If a Database Client Problem Causes a Connection Failure?
- What Should I Do If an RDS Database Problem Causes a Connection Failure?
- How Do My Applications Access an RDS DB Instance in a VPC?
- Do Applications Need to Support Reconnecting to the RDS DB Instance Automatically?
- Why Cannot I Ping My EIP After It Is Bound to a DB Instance?
- How Can I Obtain the IP Address of an Application?
- Can I Access an RDS DB Instance Over an Intranet Connection Across Regions?
- Is an SSL Connection to a DB Instance Interrupted After a Primary/Standby Switchover or Failover?
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Scaling Up Storage Space
Scenarios
If the original storage space is insufficient as your services grow, you can scale up storage space of your DB instance.
During the scale-up period, services are not interrupted.
Instance Read-Only upon Full Storage
Storage Space |
Description |
---|---|
Despite of storage size |
If the available storage space is less than 5 GB, the instance becomes read-only. This rule takes precedence over other rules that can be used to set the instance read-only. |
Less than 1 TB |
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Greater than or equal to 1 TB |
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Constraints
- The maximum allowed storage is 4,000 GB. There is no limit on the number of scale-ups.
- The DB instance is in Scaling up state when its storage space is being scaled up and the backup services are not affected.
- For primary/standby DB instances, scaling up the primary DB instance will cause the standby DB instance to also be scaled up accordingly.
- You cannot reboot or delete a DB instance that is being scaled up.
- Storage space can only be scaled up, not down.
- If you scale up a DB instance with the disk encrypted, the expanded storage space will be encrypted using the original encryption key.
Scaling Up a Primary DB Instance
- Log in to the management console.
- Click
in the upper left corner of the page and choose Databases > Relational Database Service.
- On the Instances page, locate the target DB instance and choose More > Scale Storage Space in the Operation column.
You can also perform the following operations to scale up storage space:
- Click the target DB instance to enter the Basic Information page. In the Storage Space area, click Scale Storage Space.
- On the displayed page, specify the new storage space and click Next.
The minimum increment for each scaling is 10 GB.
- Confirm specifications.
- If you need to modify your settings, click Previous.
- If you do not need to modify the settings, click Submit for a pay-per-use instance or click Pay Now for a yearly/monthly instance.
- View the scale-up result.
Scaling up storage space takes 3-5 minutes. During this time period, the status of the DB instance on the Instances page will be Scaling up. After a while, click the DB instance and view the new storage space on the displayed Basic Information page to verify that the scale-up is successful.
You can view the detailed progress and result of the task on the Task Center page. For details, see Task Center.
Scaling Up a Read Replica
Scaling up the storage space of a read replica does not affect that of the primary DB instance. Therefore, you can separately scale read replicas to meet service requirements. New storage space of read replicas after scaling up must be greater than or equal to that of the primary DB instance.
- Log in to the management console.
- Click
in the upper left corner of the page and choose Databases > Relational Database Service.
- On the Instances page, locate the target DB instance and click
in front of it. Locate the read replica to be scaled and choose More > Scale Storage Space in the Operation column.
You can also perform the following operations to scale up storage space:
- Click the read replica to enter the Basic Information page. In the Storage Space area, click Scale Storage Space.
- On the displayed page, specify the new storage space and click Next.
The minimum increment for each scaling is 10 GB.
- Confirm specifications.
- If you need to modify your settings, click Previous.
- If you do not need to modify your settings and the read replica uses pay-per-use billing, click Submit.
- View the scale-up result.
Scaling up storage space takes 3-5 minutes. During this time period, the status of the read replica on the Instances page will be Scaling up. After a while, click the read replica and view the new storage space on the displayed Basic Information page to verify that the scale-up is successful.
You can view the detailed progress and result of the task on the Task Center page. For details, see Task Center.
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