Expand serverless storage space

Use cases

• Before operations that temporarily demand more storage — such as large data imports, cloud migrations, high-write workloads, or data archiving — expand the storage space in advance to prevent service disruptions.

• If storage space usage reaches or exceeds 80%, expand the storage space to prevent service disruptions.

Prerequisites

Your Alibaba Cloud account has no unpaid renewal orders.

Considerations

• Increasing the storage space does not affect your instance's database, account, or network settings.

• Increasing the storage space does not interrupt connections. The change takes effect in approximately two minutes.

• You cannot decrease the storage space after it is increased.

Billing

Fees for an RDS SQL Server serverless instance have two components: RDS Capacity Unit (RCU) fees and storage space fees. You are billed for the new storage capacity after the increase.

Procedure

1. Navigate to the RDS Instances page, select a region in the top navigation bar, and then click the ID of the target instance.

2. On the Basic Information page, in the Configuration Information section, click Modify Storage Settings.

3. Click to increase the storage space.

   Note

   • You cannot decrease the storage space.

   • The minimum increment is 5 GB, and the maximum total storage space is 4,000 GB.

4. Click Pay Now and complete the payment.

   The storage increase takes effect in approximately two minutes. Once the instance status changes to Running, you can view the new storage capacity in the Instance Resources section on the instance details page.

References

• Adjust the RCU scaling range

• Manually pause or start an instance

• Release an instance