Updated on 2025-07-30 GMT+08:00

Overview

After you purchase a GeminiDB DynamoDB-Compatible instance, resource requirements may change along with workload volumes. You can scale your instance nodes in the following ways.

Manually Adding Instance Nodes

For example, if three nodes have been deployed and two more nodes need to be added, there will be five nodes in total. For details, see Manually Adding Instance Nodes.

Figure 1 Adding instance nodes

Automatically Adding Instance Nodes

For example, if three nodes have been deployed and two more nodes need to be added, there will be five nodes in total. For details, see Automatically Adding Instance Nodes.

Figure 2 Adding instance nodes

Manually Deleting Instance Nodes

For example, if five nodes have been deployed and two of them need to be deleted, three nodes will be left. For details, see Manually Deleting Instance Nodes.

Figure 3 Deleting instance shards