---
title: "DBaaS states"
description: "The states a MySQL, MariaDB, or PostgreSQL DBaaS instance moves through, what each one means, and when billing runs."
content_type: "concept"
product: "database"
platform: "MyAccount"
url: "/myaccount/database/concepts/database-states/"
---

# DBaaS states

A DBaaS instance moves through these states as you create, stop, start, and delete it. Its state on
the DBaaS list tells you when you can connect and when billing runs.

## What each state means

| State               | When you see it                                                                                                   |
| ------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Creating**        | MyAccount is creating the server, right after you click **Launch DBaaS**.                                         |
| **Deploying**       | The server is up and DBaaS is setting up the database. Billing starts here.                                       |
| **Running**         | Ready: connect and work.                                                                                          |
| **Restarting**      | Briefly, after you restart it.                                                                                    |
| **Resuming**        | After you start a stopped DBaaS instance, until it is **Running** again.                                          |
| **Stopping**        | Shutting down, right after you stop it.                                                                           |
| **Stopped**         | After a stop finishes, and when a disk expansion finishes. Billing continues until you delete the DBaaS instance. |
| **Upgrading**       | A plan change or a disk expansion is in progress.                                                                 |
| **Terminating**     | Being deleted, right after you delete it.                                                                         |
| **Terminated**      | Fully deleted.                                                                                                    |
| **Creation Failed** | Creation went wrong during **Creating**.                                                                          |
| **Deploy Failed**   | Setup went wrong during **Deploying**.                                                                            |
| **VM Error**        | An error stopped the DBaaS instance partway.                                                                      |

If a DBaaS instance shows **Creation Failed**, **Deploy Failed**, or **VM Error**, contact support;
[Troubleshooting DBaaS](/myaccount/database/troubleshooting/database/) lists what to have ready.

## Read Replicas

A Read Replica moves through the same states as any other DBaaS instance. Once it reads **Running**,
it is ready to promote; see
[Promote a Read Replica to Master Node](/myaccount/database/how-to/promote-a-read-replica-to-master/).