Is there a way to shutdown and start an AWS redshift cluster with the cli?

Question

I'm just bringing up a redshift cluster to start a development effort and usually use a cron service to bring down all of my development resources outside of business hours to save money.

As I browse the aws cli help:

aws redshift help

I don't see any options to stop or shutdown my test cluster like I have in the console.

If there is no way to do this, does anybody know why they don't offer this functionality? These instances are pretty spendy to keep online and I don't want to have to go in and shut them down by hand every night.

Answer 1

It sounds like you are looking for:

• delete-cluster , that explicitly specifies a final snapshot
• restore-from-cluster-snapshot , restoring the snapshot taken above

From the aws-cli aws redshift delete-cluster documentation :

If you want to shut down the cluster and retain it for future use, set SkipFinalClusterSnapshot to "false" and specify a name for FinalClusterSnapshotIdentifier . You can later restore this snapshot to resume using the cluster. If a final cluster snapshot is requested, the status of the cluster will be "final-snapshot" while the snapshot is being taken, then it's "deleting" once Amazon Redshift begins deleting the cluster.

Example usage, again from the documentation:

# When shutting down at night...
aws redshift delete-cluster --cluster-identifier mycluster --final-cluster-snapshot-identifier my-snapshot-id

# When starting up in the morning...
aws redshift restore-from-cluster-snapshot --cluster-identifier mycluster --snapshot-identifier my-snapshot-id