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Configuring Storage Autoscaling

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 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.

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.
  • To enable storage autoscaling, submit a service ticket to request permissions.
  • 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.

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, click the target DB instance or read replica name (click in front of a DB instance to locate its read replica).
  5. In the Storage Space area, click Configure Autoscaling. If the Configure Autoscaling option is not displayed, submit a service ticket to request required permissions.
  6. In the displayed dialog box, set the following parameters:

    Figure 1 Configuring autoscaling

    Table 1 Parameter description

    Parameter

    Description

    Enable autoscaling

    Select Enable autoscaling.

    Trigger If Available Storage Drops To

    If the available storage drops to a specified threshold or 10 GB, autoscaling is triggered.

    Autoscaling Limit

    The default value range is from 40 to 4,000, in GB. The limit must be no less than the storage of the DB instance.

  7. Click OK.
Parent topic: Instance Modifications