**To start a stopped Amazon DocumentDB cluster** The following ``start-db-cluster`` example starts the specified Amazon DocumentDB cluster. :: aws docdb start-db-cluster \ --db-cluster-identifier sample-cluster Output:: { "DBCluster": { "ClusterCreateTime": "2019-03-19T18:45:01.857Z", "HostedZoneId": "ZNKXH85TT8WVW", "Engine": "docdb", "DBClusterMembers": [], "MultiAZ": false, "AvailabilityZones": [ "us-east-1a", "us-east-1c", "us-east-1f" ], "StorageEncrypted": false, "ReaderEndpoint": "sample-cluster-2019-03-16-00-01-restored.cluster-ro-corcjozrlsfc.us-east-1.docdb.amazonaws.com", "Endpoint": "sample-cluster-2019-03-16-00-01-restored.cluster-corcjozrlsfc.us-east-1.docdb.amazonaws.com", "Port": 27017, "PreferredBackupWindow": "00:00-00:30", "DBSubnetGroup": "default", "DBClusterIdentifier": "sample-cluster-2019-03-16-00-01-restored", "PreferredMaintenanceWindow": "sat:04:30-sat:05:00", "DBClusterArn": "arn:aws:rds:us-east-1:123456789012:cluster:sample-cluster-2019-03-16-00-01-restored", "DBClusterParameterGroup": "default.docdb3.6", "DbClusterResourceId": "cluster-XOO46Q3RH4LWSYNH3NMZKXPISU", "MasterUsername": "master-user", "EngineVersion": "3.6.0", "BackupRetentionPeriod": 3, "AssociatedRoles": [], "Status": "creating", "VpcSecurityGroups": [ { "Status": "active", "VpcSecurityGroupId": "sg-77186e0d" } ] } } For more information, see `Stopping and Starting an Amazon DocumentDB Cluster <https://docs.aws.amazon.com/documentdb/latest/developerguide/db-cluster-stop-start.html>`__ in the *Amazon DocumentDB Developer Guide*.