Storage Autoscaling
Scenarios
With storage autoscaling enabled, when RDS detects that you are running out of database space, it automatically scales up your storage.
Autoscaling up the storage space of a read replica does not affect that of the primary DB instance. Therefore, you can separately autoscale read replicas to meet service requirements. New storage space of read replicas after autoscaling up must be greater than or equal to that of the primary DB instance.
You can enable storage autoscaling in either of the following ways:
- Enable this function when you create a DB instance. For details, see Buy a DB Instance.
- Enable this function after you create a DB instance. See the operations provided in this section.
Constraints
- You can enable storage autoscaling only when your account balance is greater than or equal to $0 USD.
- The storage space can be scaled up automatically only when your instance status is Available or Storage full.
- Storage autoscaling for RDS for PostgreSQL DB instances is supported only for cloud SSD and extreme SSD storage types. For details about storage types, see DB Instance Storage Types.
- The maximum allowed storage is 4,000 GB.
- For a primary/standby DB instance, autoscaling the storage for the primary node will also autoscale the storage for the standby node.
- Storage autoscaling is unavailable when the DB instance is in any of the following statuses: changing instance class, upgrading a minor version, migrating the standby DB instance, and rebooting.
- If a yearly/monthly DB instance has pending orders, it will not be autoscaled.
Procedure
- Log in to the management console.
- Click
in the upper left corner and select a region and a project.
- Click
in the upper left corner of the page and choose Databases > Relational Database Service.
- On the Instances page, click the target DB instance or read replica (click
in front of a DB instance to locate the read replica).
- In the Storage Space area, click Configure Autoscaling.
Figure 1 Storage space
- In the displayed dialog box, set the following parameters:
Figure 2 Configuring autoscaling
Table 1 Parameter description Parameter
Description
Enable autoscaling
If you select this option, autoscaling is enabled.
Trigger If Available Storage Drops To
If the available storage drops to a specified threshold (10%, 15%, or 20%) or 10 GB, autoscaling is triggered.
Autoscaling Limit
The default value range is from 40 GB to 4,000 GB. The limit must be no less than the storage of the DB instance.
- Click OK.
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