Modify RDS Instance Size (Optional)

Modify RDS Instance Size (Optional)

You can modify your RDS instance size with a few clicks in the AWS console. Follow the steps below:

1.Select your RDS DB instance, click Instance actions and then Modify.

2.Edit to a Large instance (t2.small), and if you want, also increase the database size at the same time. Click Next.

3.In the next screen, don’t forget to click Apply Immediately – otherwise changes will be queued for the next maintenance window. Then, click on Modify DB Instance.

You can change instance sizes up or down at any time. However you cannot shrink a database once you increase it. Just like backups, there will be an outage while you perform these operations. In general, major RDS reconfigurations such as scaling database sizes or machine size take between 4 and 12 minutes.

But, Don’t forget to clean up your resources to prevent additional charges.