You can start or stop instances. After an instance is stopped, it will no longer receive or forward traffic, perform health checks, or allow ping.
Use Cases
If you have configured a large number of CLB instances, and some of them are temporarily unused for business considerations but cannot be deleted, you can choose to stop them.
After an instance is stopped, all its listeners will also be stopped, and it will no longer receive or forward traffic.
After an instance is started, all its listeners will also be started, and it will receive and forward traffic normally.
After a listener is stopped, it will no longer receive or forward traffic. After all listeners of an instance are stopped, the instance will be stopped.
After a listener is started, it will receive and forward traffic normally. After all listeners of an instance are started, the instance will be started.
After an instance is stopped, if any of its listeners is started, the instance will be started and receive and forward traffic normally by using the started listener, while other listeners will remain stopped.
Restrictions
This feature is not supported for classic CLB.
This feature is supported only by VPC but not by classic networks.
This feature is not supported for TLS 1.3 and earlier.
Prerequisites
Directions
2. Select a region in the top-left corner of the Instance Management page, find the target instance in the instance list, and choose More > Start or More > Stop in the Operation column on the right to start or stop the instance.
3. (Optional) On the Listener Management tab, find the target listener and click Start listener or Stop listener.
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