Stopping and starting an OpenSearch cluster
You can stop and restart an OpenSearch cluster as needed. When stopped, a cluster retains all its data. The data will be available again as soon as you restart the cluster.
You are not charged for the time when your cluster is stopped; however, you still have to pay for the storage size based on the pricing policy.
Alert
If a cluster uses local SSD storage (local-ssd), its computing resources are not released when it's stopped. This means that you are charged in full even for a stopped cluster.
Stopping a cluster
- In the management console, go to the folder page and select Managed Service for OpenSearch.
- Find the cluster in the list, click the icon, and select Stop.
- In the dialog box that opens, confirm that you want to stop the cluster and click Stop.
To stop a cluster, use the stop REST API method for the Cluster resource or the ClusterService/Stop gRPC API call and provide the cluster ID in the clusterId query parameter.
You can get the cluster ID with a list of clusters in the folder.
Starting a cluster
You can restart Stopped clusters.
- In the management console, go to the folder page and select Managed Service for OpenSearch.
- Find the stopped cluster in the list, click the icon, and select Start.
- In the dialog box that opens, confirm that you want to start the cluster and click Start.
To start a cluster, use the start REST API method for the Cluster resource or the ClusterService/Start gRPC API call and provide the cluster ID in the clusterId query parameter.
You can get the cluster ID with a list of clusters in the folder.