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I am trying Amazon Aurora instance and I can not see an option to stop it. The only options are Delete and Reboot.
Am I missing something.
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To stop a DB instance by using the AWS CLI, call the stop-db-cluster command with the following parameters: --db-cluster-identifier – the name of the Aurora cluster.
You can't stop an Amazon RDS for SQL Server DB instance in a Multi-AZ configuration. You can't modify a stopped DB instance. You can't delete an option group that is associated with a stopped DB instance. You can't delete a DB parameter group that is associated with a stopped DB instance.
Open the Amazon RDS Console. In the navigation pane, Choose Databases. Choose the DB instance that you want to start and stop automatically.
When you can't connect to a DB instance, the following are common causes: Inbound rules – The access rules enforced by your local firewall and the IP addresses authorized to access your DB instance might not match. The problem is most likely the inbound rules in your security group.
Per this announcement, Aurora now supports starting and stopping the db instance. This feature was released for other RDS configurations last year and generally behaves the same in this implementation. Stopping the database cluster stops the primary instance and any Aurora replicas. The database will remain stopped for 7 days, after which it will be automatically restarted.
Additionally, see:
Per this announcement, Serverless Aurora has been released and has a feature to pause compute capacity after N consecutive minutes of inactivity. Here's an example of this configuration from the announcement blog:
This value is configurable up to 1440 minutes (24 hours), and would be comparable to "stopping" an Aurora Instance because you are not paying for compute capacity while compute capacity is paused, only database storage.
If your use case includes infrequent access (example: a dev instance that is not used after-hours), then this is currently the easiest option available.
In the AWS console, a 'Stop' option has been mentioned to the same menu described in the question body. A stopped instance retains its storage but cannot be modified until it is started again. Instances cannot be permanently stopped -- after seven days, a stopped instance will be automatically started again.
Unfortunately, some configurations still don't support this feature. See below the break for an alternative.
Additionally, see:
This includes:
RDS instances in these situations cannot be stopped and started at-will like an EC2 instance. You can, however, approximate this behavior by deleting the RDS instance with a final snapshot, and then returning later to restore an RDS instance from that DB snapshot.
This is approximate to "stopping" because no new data will be written once your final snapshot is taken, and you also won't be paying for a running RDS instance. In the same way that you would pay for any EBS volumes attached to your stopped EC2 instance, you will likewise continue paying for the storage of the DB snapshot while it exists.
This behavior diverges from stopping an EC2 instance inthat the underlying infrastructure will no longer exist. When you restore from snapshot, that will be on a new RDS instance and that restoration will take some time to complete, depending on the size of both your infrastructure and snapshot.
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