Pausing and resuming RDS Custom automation - Amazon Relational Database Service

Pausing and resuming RDS Custom automation

RDS Custom automatically provides monitoring and instance recovery for an RDS Custom for SQL Server DB instance. If you need to customize the instance, do the following:

  1. Pause RDS Custom automation for a specified period. The pause ensures that your customizations don't interfere with RDS Custom automation.

  2. Customize the RDS Custom for SQL Server DB instance as needed.

  3. Do either of the following:

    • Resume automation manually.

    • Wait for the pause period to end. In this case, RDS Custom resumes monitoring and instance recovery automatically.

Important

Pausing and resuming automation are the only supported automation tasks when modifying an RDS Custom for SQL Server DB instance.

To pause or resume RDS Custom automation

  1. Sign in to the AWS Management Console and open the Amazon RDS console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/rds/.

  2. In the navigation pane, choose Databases, and then choose the RDS Custom DB instance that you want to modify.

  3. Choose Modify. The Modify DB instance page appears.

  4. For RDS Custom automation mode, choose one of the following options:

    • Paused pauses the monitoring and instance recovery for the RDS Custom DB instance. Enter the pause duration that you want (in minutes) for Automation mode duration. The minimum value is 60 minutes (default). The maximum value is 1,440 minutes.

    • Full automation resumes automation.

  5. Choose Continue to check the summary of modifications.

    A message indicates that RDS Custom will apply the changes immediately.

  6. If your changes are correct, choose Modify DB instance. Or choose Back to edit your changes or Cancel to cancel your changes.

    On the RDS console, the details for the modification appear. If you paused automation, the Status of your RDS Custom DB instance indicates Automation paused.

  7. (Optional) In the navigation pane, choose Databases, and then your RDS Custom DB instance.

    In the Summary pane, RDS Custom automation mode indicates the automation status. If automation is paused, the value is Paused. Automation resumes in num minutes.

To pause or resume RDS Custom automation, use the modify-db-instance AWS CLI command. Identify the DB instance using the required parameter --db-instance-identifier. Control the automation mode with the following parameters:

  • --automation-mode specifies the pause state of the DB instance. Valid values are all-paused, which pauses automation, and full, which resumes it.

  • --resume-full-automation-mode-minutes specifies the duration of the pause. The default value is 60 minutes.

Note

Regardless of whether you specify --no-apply-immediately or --apply-immediately, RDS Custom applies modifications asynchronously as soon as possible.

In the command response, ResumeFullAutomationModeTime indicates the resume time as a UTC timestamp. When the automation mode is all-paused, you can use modify-db-instance to resume automation mode or extend the pause period. No other modify-db-instance options are supported.

The following example pauses automation for my-custom-instance for 90 minutes.

For Linux, macOS, or Unix:

aws rds modify-db-instance \
    --db-instance-identifier my-custom-instance \
    --automation-mode all-paused \
    --resume-full-automation-mode-minutes 90

For Windows:

aws rds modify-db-instance ^
    --db-instance-identifier my-custom-instance ^
    --automation-mode all-paused ^
    --resume-full-automation-mode-minutes 90

The following example extends the pause duration for an extra 30 minutes. The 30 minutes is added to the original time shown in ResumeFullAutomationModeTime.

For Linux, macOS, or Unix:

aws rds modify-db-instance \
    --db-instance-identifier my-custom-instance \
    --automation-mode all-paused \
    --resume-full-automation-mode-minutes 30

For Windows:

aws rds modify-db-instance ^
    --db-instance-identifier my-custom-instance ^
    --automation-mode all-paused ^
    --resume-full-automation-mode-minutes 30

The following example resumes full automation for my-custom-instance.

For Linux, macOS, or Unix:

aws rds modify-db-instance \
    --db-instance-identifier my-custom-instance \
    --automation-mode full \

For Windows:

aws rds modify-db-instance ^
    --db-instance-identifier my-custom-instance ^
    --automation-mode full

In the following partial sample output, the pending AutomationMode value is full.

{
    "DBInstance": {
        "PubliclyAccessible": true,
        "MasterUsername": "admin",
        "MonitoringInterval": 0,
        "LicenseModel": "bring-your-own-license",
        "VpcSecurityGroups": [
            {
                "Status": "active",
                "VpcSecurityGroupId": "0123456789abcdefg"
            }
        ],
        "InstanceCreateTime": "2020-11-07T19:50:06.193Z",
        "CopyTagsToSnapshot": false,
        "OptionGroupMemberships": [
            {
                "Status": "in-sync",
                "OptionGroupName": "default:custom-oracle-ee-19"
            }
        ],
        "PendingModifiedValues": {
            "AutomationMode": "full"
        },
        "Engine": "custom-oracle-ee",
        "MultiAZ": false,
        "DBSecurityGroups": [],
        "DBParameterGroups": [
            {
                "DBParameterGroupName": "default.custom-oracle-ee-19",
                "ParameterApplyStatus": "in-sync"
            }
        ],
        ...
        "ReadReplicaDBInstanceIdentifiers": [],
        "AllocatedStorage": 250,
        "DBInstanceArn": "arn:aws:rds:us-west-2:012345678912:db:my-custom-instance",
        "BackupRetentionPeriod": 3,
        "DBName": "ORCL",
        "PreferredMaintenanceWindow": "fri:10:56-fri:11:26",
        "Endpoint": {
            "HostedZoneId": "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNO",
            "Port": 8200,
            "Address": "my-custom-instance.abcdefghijk.us-west-2.rds.amazonaws.com"
        },
        "DBInstanceStatus": "automation-paused",
        "IAMDatabaseAuthenticationEnabled": false,
        "AutomationMode": "all-paused",
        "EngineVersion": "19.my_cev1",
        "DeletionProtection": false,
        "AvailabilityZone": "us-west-2a",
        "DomainMemberships": [],
        "StorageType": "gp2",
        "DbiResourceId": "db-ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVW",
        "ResumeFullAutomationModeTime": "2020-11-07T20:56:50.565Z",
        "KmsKeyId": "arn:aws:kms:us-west-2:012345678912:key/aa111a11-111a-11a1-1a11-1111a11a1a1a",
        "StorageEncrypted": false,
        "AssociatedRoles": [],
        "DBInstanceClass": "db.m5.xlarge",
        "DbInstancePort": 0,
        "DBInstanceIdentifier": "my-custom-instance",
        "TagList": []
    }