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What happens to Amazon RDS and Amazon Redshift queries that are running during a maintenance window?
I have Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) or Amazon Redshift queries that are running during a maintenance window.
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Note: For both Amazon RDS and Amazon Redshift, it's a best practice to perform maintenance during low or no business activity. Depending on the maintenance that's performed, it's possible that the maintenance duration can exceed the maintenance window time.
Amazon RDS maintenance
Amazon RDS maintenance windows usually involve updates to one or more of the following parts:
- The DB instance's operating system (OS)
- The database engine version
- The cluster version
- The underlying hardware
If maintenance requires an instance reboot or an engine restart, then queries and transactions that are running are terminated. To maintain Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, and Durability (ACID) compliance, uncommitted transactions are rolled back during the engine restart. You must run the queries or transactions that are terminated again. By default, both MySQL and PostgreSQL are ACID compliant, but you can configure parameters to override that compliance behavior.
To confirm that there aren't any parameters that might stop the engine from being ACID compliant, check your engine's documentation. For more information, see the documentation for InnoDB and the ACID Model on the MySQL website, and the documentation for synchronous_commit on the PostgreSQL website.
Amazon Redshift maintenance
Amazon Redshift maintenance windows require the cluster to go offline or to restart during scheduled maintenance. If queries are running during scheduled maintenance, then queries are terminated and rolled back. To view terminated queries, see SVL_QLOG.
It's a best practice to schedule around maintenance windows, especially long-running operations, such as large data loads or VACUUM operations. For more information, see Amazon Redshift best practices.
Note: If the maintenance doesn't require a restart for the DB engine, cluster, or instance, then queries aren't affected.
Related information
How do I configure notifications for Amazon RDS or Amazon Redshift maintenance windows?
How do I minimize downtime during required Amazon RDS maintenance?
Hi,
How does the queries for Multi-AZ Redshift work running during scheduled maintenance? does the queries are terminated and rolled back?
I understand about Availability of Multi-AZ redshift cluster from this article that, https://repost.aws/knowledge-center/notification-maintenance-rds-redshift
When the maintenance is in progress, Single-AZ deployments are unavailable for a few minutes during that maintenance window. Suppose that you use a Multi-AZ deployment and the primary DB instance is in an affected Availability Zone while the maintenance is in progress. The database isn't available until failover is complete, which is usually about 60 seconds. (Note that this failover occurs in your maintenance window). If the primary DB instance isn't in an affected Availability Zone while the maintenance is in progress, then the secondary is replaced. The secondary is replaced during your maintenance window without failover and without affecting availability.
Thank you for your comment. We'll review and update the Knowledge Center article as needed.
