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Terminate Your DB Instance
As soon as your DB Instance becomes available, you’re billed for each hour or partial hour that you keep the DB Instance running (even if the DB Instance is idle). Once you've decided that you no longer need the DB Instance, you can terminate it.
To terminate your DB Instance
In the AWS Management Console, locate the DB Instance in your list of DB Instances on the My DB Instances page.
Select the check box next to the DB Instance, and then click Delete button at the top of the My DB Instances page.
The Delete DB Instance window appears.
Select No in the Create final snapshot? drop-down list.
If this weren't an exercise, you might create a final snapshot before you deleted the DB Instance so that you could restore the DB Instance later.
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Note Creating a final snapshot incurs additional storage fees.
Click the OK button.
Amazon RDS begins terminating the instance. As soon as the DB Instance status changes to
deleted, you stop incurring charges for that DB Instance.
Congratulations! You successfully launched, authorized access to, connected to, and terminated a DB Instance. For more information about Amazon RDS and how to continue, see Where Do I Go from Here?.
