Unable to delete RDS cluster due to false error about pending maintainence?

Question

I have a RDS cluster which is stuck in a weird state. It is telling me that i have a pending upgrade even though there is none that i can see. I am trying to delete my cluster but when i select delete i get the following error message :-

The cluster arn:aws:rds:us-east-1:XXXXXXXXXXX:cluster:aurora-cluster-demo is upgrading or has pending upgrade; please retry the request once the cluster has finished the upgrade

which is clearly not the case since there is no pending maintenance that i can see on the UI and neither via the CLI.

and checking the pending maintenance via the CLI shows nothing either :

aws rds describe-pending-maintenance-actions --resource-identifier arn:aws:rds:us-east-1:XXXXXXXXXXX:cluster:aurora-cluster-demo
{
"PendingMaintenanceActions": []
}

Answer 1

If you are able to Stop the database, then you might be able to Delete the cluster.

Quite strange, as your dashboard is showing that there are zero instances in the cluster anyway!