# Managing an Amazon RDS DB instance
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 Following, you can find instructions for managing and maintaining your Amazon RDS DB instance.

**Topics**
+ [Stopping an Amazon RDS DB instance temporarily](USER_StopInstance.md)
+ [Starting an Amazon RDS DB instance that was previously stopped](USER_StartInstance.md)
+ [Rebooting a DB instance](USER_RebootInstance.md)
+ [Automatically connecting an EC2 instance and a DB instance](ec2-rds-connect.md)
+ [Automatically connecting a Lambda function and a DB instance](lambda-rds-connect.md)
+ [Modifying an Amazon RDS DB instance](Overview.DBInstance.Modifying.md)
+ [Maintaining a DB instance](USER_UpgradeDBInstance.Maintenance.md)
+ [Upgrading a DB instance engine version](USER_UpgradeDBInstance.Upgrading.md)
+ [Renaming a DB instance](USER_RenameInstance.md)
+ [Working with DB instance read replicas](USER_ReadRepl.md)
+ [Tagging Amazon RDS resources](USER_Tagging.md)
+ [Amazon Resource Names (ARNs) in Amazon RDS](USER_Tagging.ARN.md)
+ [Working with storage for Amazon RDS DB instances](USER_PIOPS.StorageTypes.md)
+ [Deleting a DB instance](USER_DeleteInstance.md)
+ [Tutorial: Managing a MySQL DB instance environment from development to production](tutorial-managing-MySQL-DB.md)