Deleting a Multi-AZ DB cluster - Amazon Relational Database Service
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Deleting a Multi-AZ DB cluster

You can delete a DB Multi-AZ DB cluster using the Amazon Web Services Management Console, the Amazon CLI, or the RDS API. In order to delete a Multi-AZ DB cluster, you must first delete all of it's DB instances.

The time required to delete a Multi-AZ DB cluster can vary depending on the following factors:

  • Thee backup retention period (that is, how many backups to delete).

  • How much data is deleted.

  • Whether a final snapshot is taken.

Deletion protection must be disabled on the Multi-AZ DB cluster before you can delete it. For more information, see Prerequisites for deleting a DB instance. You can disable deletion protection by modifying the Multi-AZ DB cluster. For more information, see Modifying a Multi-AZ DB cluster.

To delete a Multi-AZ DB cluster

  1. Sign in to the Amazon Web Services Management Console and open the Amazon RDS console at https://console.amazonaws.cn/rds/.

  2. In the navigation pane, choose Databases, and then choose the Multi-AZ DB cluster that you want to delete.

  3. For Actions, choose Delete.

  4. Choose Create final snapshot? to create a final DB snapshot for the Multi-AZ DB cluster.

    If you create a final snapshot, enter a name for Final snapshot name.

  5. Choose Retain automated backups to retain automated backups.

  6. Enter delete me in the box.

  7. Choose Delete.

To delete a Multi-AZ DB cluster by using the Amazon CLI, call the delete-db-cluster command with the following options:

  • --db-cluster-identifier

  • --final-db-snapshot-identifier or --skip-final-snapshot

Example With a final snapshot

For Linux, macOS, or Unix:

aws rds delete-db-cluster \
    --db-cluster-identifier mymultiazdbcluster \
    --final-db-snapshot-identifier mymultiazdbclusterfinalsnapshot

For Windows:

aws rds delete-db-cluster ^
    --db-cluster-identifier mymultiazdbcluster ^
    --final-db-snapshot-identifier mymultiazdbclusterfinalsnapshot
Example With no final snapshot

For Linux, macOS, or Unix:

aws rds delete-db-cluster \
    --db-cluster-identifier mymultiazdbcluster \
    --skip-final-snapshot

For Windows:

aws rds delete-db-cluster ^
    --db-cluster-identifier mymultiazdbcluster ^
    --skip-final-snapshot

To delete a Multi-AZ DB cluster by using the Amazon RDS API, call the DeleteDBCluster operation with the following parameters:

  • DBClusterIdentifier

  • FinalDBSnapshotIdentifier or SkipFinalSnapshot