OceanBase Cloud supports stopping and starting pay-as-you-go instances.
Background information
When business requirements change and you temporarily do not need some existing database instances, you can stop those instances to suspend their services and start them again when needed. During the specified retention period while an instance is stopped, you are charged only for data storage and data backups in the instance, which helps reduce unnecessary costs and lower instance management expenses.
Considerations
After an instance is stopped, it may fail to restart due to insufficient cloud computing inventory. For tasks such as data migration, data import, data archiving, and cleanup, manually resume and verify their execution status. Proceed with caution.
Before you stop a cluster instance, confirm that data migration, data import, data archiving, and cleanup tasks are complete. Otherwise, those tasks may fail.
An instance can remain stopped for up to 7 days. During this period, compute resources are not billed, but storage and backup storage are still billed according to product rules. Instance backup and Binlog services are suspended while the instance is stopped. You can manually start the cluster at any time within the maximum retention period. After the retention period ends, the cluster is started automatically according to platform rules, as indicated in the console.
Stop an instance
Log in to the OceanBase Cloud console.
In the left-side navigation pane, click Instances.
On the Instances page, click the More icon in the row of the target instance and select Stop Instance.
Note
Only pay-as-you-go instances in the Running state support the stop operation.
In the dialog box, click Stop Instance to confirm.
After you click Stop Instance, the instance enters the Stopping state.
Note
- You cannot perform other operations on an instance in the Stopping state. After the stop operation completes, the instance enters the Stopped state.
- For a pay-as-you-go instance, if you stop it near the end of the billing cycle and the stop period extends beyond the last day of the billing cycle, the Overdue state overrides the Stopped state and the instance cannot be started.
- While a pay-as-you-go instance is stopped, compute resources are not billed. Storage and backup storage are still billed.
Start an instance
Log in to the OceanBase Cloud console.
In the left-side navigation pane, click Instances.
On the Instances page, click the More icon in the row of the target instance and select Start.
Note
Only pay-as-you-go instances in the Stopped state support the start operation.
In the dialog box, click Start to confirm.
After you click Start, the instance enters the Starting state.
Note
You cannot perform other operations on an instance in the Starting state. After the start operation completes, the instance enters the Running state.