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Shutting Down or Deleting a Cluster
If you no longer need your cluster, you can shut it down or delete it. If you plan to provision a new cluster
with the same data and configuration as the one you are shutting down, you will need a snapshot so that
you can restore the snapshot at a later time and resume using the cluster. If you shut down your cluster
but you don't create a final snapshot, the cluster will be deleted. In either case, automated snapshots are
deleted after the cluster is shut down, but any manual snapshots are retained until you delete them.You
might be charged Amazon Simple Storage Service storage rates for manual snapshots, depending on
the amount of storage you have available for Amazon Redshift snapshots for your clusters. For more
information, see Shutting Down and Deleting Clusters (p. 12).
To shut down or delete a cluster
1. Sign in to the AWS Management Console, and open the Amazon Redshift console at https://
console.aws.amazon.com/redshift.
2. In the navigation pane, click Clusters, and then click the cluster that you want to shut down or delete.
3. On the Configuration tab of the cluster details page, click Cluster, and then click Shut Down.
4. In the Shut Down Clusters dialog box, do one of the following:
• In Create snapshot, click Yes to shut down the cluster and take a final snapshot. In Snapshot
name, type a name for the final snapshot, and then click Shut Down.
• In Create snapshot, click No to shut down and delete the cluster without taking a final snapshot,
and then click Shut Down.
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Amazon Redshift Management Guide
Shutting Down or Deleting a Cluster