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title: "Fly - Now With Power Pause"
description: "Fly introduces Power Pause, a way to mothball applications when development pauses, schedules slip, or running costs need management. The new flyctl suspend command saves an application's state and reduces its running instances to zero while retaining networking configuration, IP addresses, and certificates; flyctl resume restores service by starting one instance first, even for applications deployed across multiple regions. Operators can then use flyctl scale set min=n to increase the minimum count, while flyctl regions list shows the region pool and the new regions set command replaces manual region additions and deletions. The release also adds application status to account listings and a flyctl open command that opens a deployed application's hostname in a browser."
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# Fly - Now With Power Pause

[Fly.io](https://yomu.fyi/company/fly-io) · May 28, 2020

**Type:** Announcement

## Summary

Fly introduces Power Pause, a way to mothball applications when development pauses, schedules slip, or running costs need management. The new flyctl suspend command saves an application's state and reduces its running instances to zero while retaining networking configuration, IP addresses, and certificates; flyctl resume restores service by starting one instance first, even for applications deployed across multiple regions. Operators can then use flyctl scale set min=n to increase the minimum count, while flyctl regions list shows the region pool and the new regions set command replaces manual region additions and deletions. The release also adds application status to account listings and a flyctl open command that opens a deployed application's hostname in a browser.

## Context

Applications may need to be mothballed during project delays or pauses, or to help manage running costs, without losing their networking configuration, IP addresses, or certificates.

## Approach / What changed

Power Pause adds flyctl suspend and flyctl resume commands, region-pool management through regions set, application status in listings, and browser navigation through flyctl open. Suspension saves application state and scales running instances to zero; resumption starts one instance before further scaling.

## Takeaways

- flyctl suspend reduces an application's running instances to zero while preserving its networking configuration, IP addresses, and certificates.
- flyctl resume starts with a scale minimum count of 1, and flyctl scale set min=n can restore a larger deployment across the desired region pool.
- The release adds regions set, application status in account listings, and flyctl open for opening a deployed application's hostname in a browser.

**Tags:** [Fly](https://yomu.fyi/topic/fly)

- Source: [Fly.io](https://fly.io/blog/fly-now-with-power-pause)
- Source URL: https://fly.io/blog/fly-now-with-power-pause
- Ingested by Yomu: 2026-09-02T11:58:58.085Z

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