Online scaling up - Amazon MemoryDB for Redis
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Online scaling up

Scaling up MemoryDB clusters (Console)

The following procedure describes how to scale up a MemoryDB cluster using the Amazon Web Services Management Console. During this process, your MemoryDB cluster will continue to serve requests with minimal downtime.

To scale up a cluster (console)
  1. Sign in to the Amazon Web Services Management Console and open the MemoryDB for Redis console at https://console.amazonaws.cn/memorydb/.

  2. From the list of clusters, choose the cluster.

  3. Choose Actions and then choose Modify.

  4. In the Modify Cluster dialog:

    1. Choose the node type you want to scale to from the Node type list. To scale up, select a node type larger than your existing node.

  5. Choose Save changes.

    The cluster's status changes to modifying. When the status changes to available, the modification is complete and you can begin using the new cluster.

Scaling up MemoryDB clusters (Amazon CLI)

The following procedure describes how to scale up a MemoryDB cluster using the Amazon CLI. During this process, your MemoryDB cluster will continue to serve requests with minimal downtime.

To scale up a MemoryDB cluster (Amazon CLI)
  1. Determine the node types you can scale up to by running the Amazon CLI list-allowed-node-type-updates command with the following parameter.

    For Linux, OS X, or Unix:

    aws memorydb list-allowed-node-type-updates \ --cluster-name my-cluster-name

    For Windows:

    aws memorydb list-allowed-node-type-updates ^ --cluster-name my-cluster-name

    Output from the above command looks something like this (JSON format).

    { "ScaleUpNodeTypes": [ "db.r6g.2xlarge", "db.r6g.large" ], "ScaleDownNodeTypes": [ "db.r6g.large" ], }

    For more information, see list-allowed-node-type-updates in the Amazon CLI Reference.

  2. Modify your cluster to scale up to the new, larger node type, using the Amazon CLI update-cluster command and the following parameters.

    • --cluster-name – The name of the cluster you are scaling up to.

    • --node-type – The new node type you want to scale the cluster. This value must be one of the node types returned by the list-allowed-node-type-updates command in step 1.

    For Linux, OS X, or Unix:

    aws memorydb update-cluster \ --cluster-name my-cluster \ --node-type db.r6g.2xlarge

    For Windows:

    aws memorydb update-cluster ^ --cluster-name my-cluster ^ --node-type db.r6g.2xlarge ^

    For more information, see update-cluster.

Scaling up MemoryDB clusters (MemoryDB API)

The following process scales your cluster from its current node type to a new, larger node type using the MemoryDB API. During this process, MemoryDB updates the DNS entries so they point to the new nodes. You can scale auto-failover enabled clusters while the cluster continues to stay online and serve incoming requests.

The amount of time it takes to scale up to a larger node type varies, depending upon your node type and the amount of data in your current cluster.

To scale up a MemoryDB cluster (MemoryDB API)
  1. Determine which node types you can scale up to using the MemoryDB API ListAllowedNodeTypeUpdates action with the following parameter.

    • ClusterName – the name of the cluster. Use this parameter to describe a specific cluster rather than all clusters.

    https://memory-db.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/ ?Action=ListAllowedNodeTypeUpdates &ClusterName=MyCluster &Version=2021-01-01 &SignatureVersion=4 &SignatureMethod=HmacSHA256 &Timestamp=20210802T192317Z &X-Amz-Credential=<credential>

    For more information, see ListAllowedNodeTypeUpdates in the MemoryDB for Redis API Reference.

  2. Scale your current cluster up to the new node type using the UpdateCluster MemoryDB API action and with the following parameters.

    • ClusterName – the name of the cluster.

    • NodeType – the new, larger node type of the clusters in this cluster. This value must be one of the instance types returned by the ListAllowedNodeTypeUpdates action in step 1.

    https://memory-db.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/ ?Action=UpdateCluster &NodeType=db.r6g.2xlarge &ClusterName=myCluster &SignatureVersion=4 &SignatureMethod=HmacSHA256 &Timestamp=20210801T220302Z &Version=2021-01-01 &X-Amz-Algorithm=Amazon4-HMAC-SHA256 &X-Amz-Date=20210801T220302Z &X-Amz-SignedHeaders=Host &X-Amz-Expires=20210801T220302Z &X-Amz-Credential=<credential> &X-Amz-Signature=<signature>

    For more information, see UpdateCluster.