An increase to the storage of a big RDS instance at work took 38 minutes to complete via Terraform. It was an increase from 300 GiB to 500 GiB.
This is something to bare in mind. Apparently there’s always potential for RDS database storage increases to take a good while, as detailed here: Troubleshoot an Amazon RDS DB Instance That Is Stuck in the Modifying State When Trying to Increase the Allocated Storage
I'm a technology professional who's been passionate about computers since my Grandad introduced me to an Intel 386 back in the 90s when I was a kid. Those moments inspired a passion within for technology, and I've been playing around with anything with a circuit board ever since. Whenever I have a moment you can probably find me working on something computer-related, and this is where I like to write about those moments.
