Starting an Amazon RDS DB Instance That Was Previously Stopped
You can stop your Amazon RDS DB instance temporarily to save money. After you stop your DB instance, you can restart it to begin using it again. For more details about stopping and starting DB instances, see Stopping an Amazon RDS DB Instance Temporarily.
When you start a DB instance that you previously stopped, the DB instance retains the ID, Domain Name Server (DNS) endpoint, parameter group, security group, and option group. When you start a stopped instance, you are charged a full instance hour.
AWS Management Console
To start a DB instance
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Sign in to the AWS Management Console and open the Amazon RDS console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/rds/.
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In the navigation pane, choose Databases, and then choose the DB instance that you want to start.
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Choose Actions, and then choose Start.
CLI
To start a DB instance by using the AWS CLI, call the start-db-instance command with the following parameters:
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--db-instance-identifier
– the name of the DB instance.
Example
start-db-instance --db-instance-identifier
mydbinstance
API
To start a DB instance by using the Amazon RDS API, call the StartDBInstance action with the following parameters:
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DBInstanceIdentifier
– the name of the DB instance.
Example
https://rds.amazonaws.com/ ?Action=StartDBInstance &DBInstanceIdentifier=
mydbinstance
&SignatureMethod=HmacSHA256
&SignatureVersion=4
&Version=2014-10-31
&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256
&X-Amz-Credential=AKIADQKE4SARGYLE/20131016/us-west-1/rds/aws4_request
&X-Amz-Date=20131016T233051Z
&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=content-type;host;user-agent;x-amz-content-sha256;x-amz-date
&X-Amz-Signature=087a8eb41cb1ab5f99e81575f23e73757ffc6a1e42d7d2b30b9cc0be988cff97