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.

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 pay-per-use instance may fail to be started due to insufficient resources. In this case, wait for a while and start it again.

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 Databases > 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.
   Figure 1 Starting an instance
   

6. Refresh the instance list and view the status of the instance. If the status is Available, the instance is started successfully.