Starting an Instance

Scenarios

You can stop your instance temporarily to save money. After stopping your instance, you can restart it to begin using it again.

Billing

After a DB instance is started, the VM where the DB instance is located is billed again.

Constraints

• If you start a primary instance, read replicas (if there are any) will also be started.
• When a stopped DB instance is started, a full backup is automatically triggered.
• Only instances in Stopped state can be started.
• A stopped instance may fail to start due to insufficient ECS resources. In this case, try again later or restore data to a new DB instance using the latest backup. If you need assistance, contact customer service.

Procedure

1. Log in to the management console.
2. Click in the upper left corner and select a region and a project.
3. Click in the upper left corner of the page and choose Database > Relational Database Service.
4. On the Instances page, locate the primary instance that you want to start and choose More > Start in the Operation column.
5. In the displayed dialog box, click Yes.
6. Refresh the instance list and view the status of the instance. If the status is Available, the instance is started successfully.