{"id":46741,"date":"2024-07-25T05:07:45","date_gmt":"2024-07-25T05:07:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/?p=46741"},"modified":"2025-05-04T06:12:20","modified_gmt":"2025-05-04T06:12:20","slug":"aws-tutorials-how-to-shutdown-stop-start-elasticache-service-in-aws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/aws-tutorials-how-to-shutdown-stop-start-elasticache-service-in-aws\/","title":{"rendered":"AWS Tutorials: How to Shutdown (Stop \/ Start) ElastiCache Service in AWS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>ElastiCache does not support direct stopping and starting of clusters. Instead, the best way to minimize the cost of ElastiCache when it&#8217;s not in use is to scale down the cluster to the minimum configuration or to take snapshots of your data, delete the cluster, and recreate it when needed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Scaling Down the Cluster<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>You can scale down the ElastiCache cluster to the minimum configuration to reduce costs. This involves reducing the number of nodes and changing the instance type to a smaller, less expensive one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>AWS CLI Commands<\/p>\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\" aria-describedby=\"shcb-language-1\" data-shcb-language-name=\"CSS\" data-shcb-language-slug=\"css\"><span><code class=\"hljs language-css\"><span class=\"hljs-selector-tag\">aws<\/span> <span class=\"hljs-selector-tag\">elasticache<\/span> <span class=\"hljs-selector-tag\">modify-cache-cluster<\/span> <span class=\"hljs-selector-tag\">--cache-cluster-id<\/span> <span class=\"hljs-selector-tag\">your-cache-cluster-id<\/span> <span class=\"hljs-selector-tag\">--num-cache-nodes<\/span> 1 <span class=\"hljs-selector-tag\">--cache-node-type<\/span> <span class=\"hljs-selector-tag\">cache<\/span><span class=\"hljs-selector-class\">.t2<\/span><span class=\"hljs-selector-class\">.micro<\/span> <span class=\"hljs-selector-tag\">--apply-immediately<\/span>\n<\/code><\/span><small class=\"shcb-language\" id=\"shcb-language-1\"><span class=\"shcb-language__label\">Code language:<\/span> <span class=\"shcb-language__name\">CSS<\/span> <span class=\"shcb-language__paren\">(<\/span><span class=\"shcb-language__slug\">css<\/span><span class=\"shcb-language__paren\">)<\/span><\/small><\/pre>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Script for Scaling Down and Restoring ElastiCache Cluster<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<script src=\"https:\/\/gist.github.com\/rajeshkumarin\/70d979f403c578a538869ae4775269d1.js\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ElastiCache does not support direct stopping and starting of clusters. Instead, the best way to minimize the cost of ElastiCache when it&#8217;s not in use is to scale down the&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_joinchat":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[5936],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elastic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46741"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46742,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46741\/revisions\/46742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}