AWS Architecture Blog
Author: Islam Ghanim
Islam Ghanim is a Senior Technical Account Manager at Amazon Web Services in Melbourne, Australia. He enjoys helping customers build resilient and cost-efficient architectures. Outside work, he plays squash, tennis and almost any other racket sport.
Field Notes: Stopping an Automatically Started Database Instance with Amazon RDS
Customers needing to keep an Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) instance stopped for more than 7 days, look for ways to efficiently re-stop the database after being automatically started by Amazon RDS. If the database is started and there is no mechanism to stop it; customers start to pay for the instance’s hourly cost. […]