Pause, resume, and delete universes

To reduce costs on unused universes, you can pause or delete them.

Pause a universe

To pause a universe via the YugabyteDB Anywhere UI, navigate to Universes, select your universe, then click Actions > Pause Universe.

You can't change the configuration, or read and write data to a paused universe. Alerts and backups are also stopped. Existing backups remain until they expire.

Note that for public clouds, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud Platform (GCP), pausing a universe reduces costs for instance vCPU capacity, but disk and backup storage costs are not affected.

Resume a universe

To resume a paused universe via the YugabyteDB Anywhere UI, navigate to Universes, select the paused universe, then click Actions > Resume Universe.

Delete a universe

To delete a universe via the YugabyteDB Anywhere UI, navigate to Universes, select your universe, then click Actions > Delete Universe.

For public clouds, the underlying compute instances are terminated after the database has been uninstalled from those nodes.

For on-premises data centers, the underlying compute instances are no longer marked as In Use, which then opens those instances up to be reused for new universes.