describe-db-instances¶

Description¶

Returns information about provisioned instances, and supports pagination.

Note

This operation can also return information for Amazon RDS instances and Amazon DocDB instances.

Synopsis¶

  describe-db-instances
[--db-instance-identifier <value>]
[--filters <value>]
[--cli-input-json | --cli-input-yaml]
[--starting-token <value>]
[--page-size <value>]
[--max-items <value>]
[--generate-cli-skeleton <value>]
[--cli-auto-prompt <value>]

Options¶

--db-instance-identifier (string)

The user-supplied instance identifier. If this parameter is specified, information from only the specific DB instance is returned. This parameter isn’t case-sensitive.

Constraints:

If supplied, must match the identifier of an existing DBInstance.

--filters (list)

A filter that specifies one or more DB instances to describe.

Supported filters:

db-cluster-id - Accepts DB cluster identifiers and DB cluster Amazon Resource Names (ARNs). The results list will only include information about the DB instances associated with the DB clusters identified by these ARNs.

engine - Accepts an engine name (such as neptune ), and restricts the results list to DB instances created by that engine.

For example, to invoke this API from the AWS CLI and filter so that only Neptune DB instances are returned, you could use the following command:

(structure)

This type is not currently supported.

Name -> (string)

This parameter is not currently supported.

Values -> (list)

This parameter is not currently supported.

(string)

Shorthand Syntax:

Name=string,Values=string,string ...

JSON Syntax:

[
  {
    "Name": "string",
    "Values": ["string", ...]
  }
  ...
]

--cli-input-json | --cli-input-yaml (string) Reads arguments from the JSON string provided. The JSON string follows the format provided by --generate-cli-skeleton. If other arguments are provided on the command line, those values will override the JSON-provided values. It is not possible to pass arbitrary binary values using a JSON-provided value as the string will be taken literally. This may not be specified along with --cli-input-yaml.

--starting-token (string)

A token to specify where to start paginating. This is the NextToken from a previously truncated response.

For usage examples, see Pagination in the AWS Command Line Interface User Guide .

--page-size (integer)

The size of each page to get in the AWS service call. This does not affect the number of items returned in the command’s output. Setting a smaller page size results in more calls to the AWS service, retrieving fewer items in each call. This can help prevent the AWS service calls from timing out.

For usage examples, see Pagination in the AWS Command Line Interface User Guide .

--max-items (integer)

The total number of items to return in the command’s output. If the total number of items available is more than the value specified, a NextToken is provided in the command’s output. To resume pagination, provide the NextToken value in the starting-token argument of a subsequent command. Do not use the NextToken response element directly outside of the AWS CLI.

For usage examples, see Pagination in the AWS Command Line Interface User Guide .

--generate-cli-skeleton (string) Prints a JSON skeleton to standard output without sending an API request. If provided with no value or the value input, prints a sample input JSON that can be used as an argument for --cli-input-json. Similarly, if provided yaml-input it will print a sample input YAML that can be used with --cli-input-yaml. If provided with the value output, it validates the command inputs and returns a sample output JSON for that command.

--cli-auto-prompt (boolean) Automatically prompt for CLI input parameters.

See ‘aws help’ for descriptions of global parameters.

Output¶

Marker -> (string)

An optional pagination token provided by a previous request. If this parameter is specified, the response includes only records beyond the marker, up to the value specified by MaxRecords .

DBInstances -> (list)

A list of DBInstance instances.

(structure)

Contains the details of an Amazon Neptune DB instance.

This data type is used as a response element in the DescribeDBInstances action.

DBInstanceIdentifier -> (string)

Contains a user-supplied database identifier. This identifier is the unique key that identifies a DB instance.

DBInstanceClass -> (string)

Contains the name of the compute and memory capacity class of the DB instance.

Engine -> (string)

Provides the name of the database engine to be used for this DB instance.

DBInstanceStatus -> (string)

Specifies the current state of this database.

MasterUsername -> (string)

Contains the master username for the DB instance.

DBName -> (string)

The database name.

Endpoint -> (structure)

Specifies the connection endpoint.

Address -> (string)

Specifies the DNS address of the DB instance.

Port -> (integer)

Specifies the port that the database engine is listening on.

HostedZoneId -> (string)

Specifies the ID that Amazon Route 53 assigns when you create a hosted zone.

AllocatedStorage -> (integer)

Specifies the allocated storage size specified in gibibytes.

InstanceCreateTime -> (timestamp)

Provides the date and time the DB instance was created.

PreferredBackupWindow -> (string)

Specifies the daily time range during which automated backups are created if automated backups are enabled, as determined by the BackupRetentionPeriod .

BackupRetentionPeriod -> (integer)

Specifies the number of days for which automatic DB snapshots are retained.

DBSecurityGroups -> (list)

Provides List of DB security group elements containing only DBSecurityGroup.Name and DBSecurityGroup.Status subelements.

(structure)

Specifies membership in a designated DB security group.

DBSecurityGroupName -> (string)

The name of the DB security group.

Status -> (string)

The status of the DB security group.

VpcSecurityGroups -> (list)

Provides a list of VPC security group elements that the DB instance belongs to.

(structure)

This data type is used as a response element for queries on VPC security group membership.

VpcSecurityGroupId -> (string)

The name of the VPC security group.

Status -> (string)

The status of the VPC security group.

DBParameterGroups -> (list)

Provides the list of DB parameter groups applied to this DB instance.

(structure)

The status of the DB parameter group.

This data type is used as a response element in the following actions:

CreateDBInstance

DeleteDBInstance

ModifyDBInstance

RebootDBInstance

DBParameterGroupName -> (string)

The name of the DP parameter group.

ParameterApplyStatus -> (string)

The status of parameter updates.

AvailabilityZone -> (string)

Specifies the name of the Availability Zone the DB instance is located in.

DBSubnetGroup -> (structure)

Specifies information on the subnet group associated with the DB instance, including the name, description, and subnets in the subnet group.

DBSubnetGroupName -> (string)

The name of the DB subnet group.

DBSubnetGroupDescription -> (string)

Provides the description of the DB subnet group.

VpcId -> (string)

Provides the VpcId of the DB subnet group.

SubnetGroupStatus -> (string)

Provides the status of the DB subnet group.

Subnets -> (list)

Contains a list of Subnet elements.

(structure)

Specifies a subnet.

This data type is used as a response element in the DescribeDBSubnetGroups action.

SubnetIdentifier -> (string)

Specifies the identifier of the subnet.

SubnetAvailabilityZone -> (structure)

Specifies the EC2 Availability Zone that the subnet is in.

Name -> (string)

The name of the availability zone.

SubnetStatus -> (string)

Specifies the status of the subnet.

DBSubnetGroupArn -> (string)

The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) for the DB subnet group.

PreferredMaintenanceWindow -> (string)

Specifies the weekly time range during which system maintenance can occur, in Universal Coordinated Time (UTC).

PendingModifiedValues -> (structure)

Specifies that changes to the DB instance are pending. This element is only included when changes are pending. Specific changes are identified by subelements.

DBInstanceClass -> (string)

Contains the new DBInstanceClass for the DB instance that will be applied or is currently being applied.

AllocatedStorage -> (integer)

Contains the new AllocatedStorage size for the DB instance that will be applied or is currently being applied.

MasterUserPassword -> (string)

Contains the pending or currently-in-progress change of the master credentials for the DB instance.

Port -> (integer)

Specifies the pending port for the DB instance.

BackupRetentionPeriod -> (integer)

Specifies the pending number of days for which automated backups are retained.

MultiAZ -> (boolean)

Indicates that the Single-AZ DB instance is to change to a Multi-AZ deployment.

EngineVersion -> (string)

Indicates the database engine version.

LicenseModel -> (string)

The license model for the DB instance.

Valid values: license-included | bring-your-own-license | general-public-license

Iops -> (integer)

Specifies the new Provisioned IOPS value for the DB instance that will be applied or is currently being applied.

DBInstanceIdentifier -> (string)

Contains the new DBInstanceIdentifier for the DB instance that will be applied or is currently being applied.

StorageType -> (string)

Specifies the storage type to be associated with the DB instance.

CACertificateIdentifier -> (string)

Specifies the identifier of the CA certificate for the DB instance.

DBSubnetGroupName -> (string)

The new DB subnet group for the DB instance.

PendingCloudwatchLogsExports -> (structure)

This PendingCloudwatchLogsExports structure specifies pending changes to which CloudWatch logs are enabled and which are disabled.

LogTypesToEnable -> (list)

Log types that are in the process of being deactivated. After they are deactivated, these log types aren’t exported to CloudWatch Logs.

(string)

LogTypesToDisable -> (list)

Log types that are in the process of being enabled. After they are enabled, these log types are exported to CloudWatch Logs.

(string)

LatestRestorableTime -> (timestamp)

Specifies the latest time to which a database can be restored with point-in-time restore.

MultiAZ -> (boolean)

Specifies if the DB instance is a Multi-AZ deployment.

EngineVersion -> (string)

Indicates the database engine version.

AutoMinorVersionUpgrade -> (boolean)

Indicates that minor version patches are applied automatically.

ReadReplicaSourceDBInstanceIdentifier -> (string)

Contains the identifier of the source DB instance if this DB instance is a Read Replica.

ReadReplicaDBInstanceIdentifiers -> (list)

Contains one or more identifiers of the Read Replicas associated with this DB instance.

(string)

ReadReplicaDBClusterIdentifiers -> (list)

Contains one or more identifiers of DB clusters that are Read Replicas of this DB instance.

(string)

LicenseModel -> (string)

License model information for this DB instance.

Iops -> (integer)

Specifies the Provisioned IOPS (I/O operations per second) value.

OptionGroupMemberships -> (list)

(Not supported by Neptune)

(structure)

Provides information on the option groups the DB instance is a member of.

OptionGroupName -> (string)

The name of the option group that the instance belongs to.

Status -> (string)

The status of the DB instance’s option group membership. Valid values are: in-sync , pending-apply , pending-removal , pending-maintenance-apply , pending-maintenance-removal , applying , removing , and failed .

CharacterSetName -> (string)

(Not supported by Neptune)

SecondaryAvailabilityZone -> (string)

If present, specifies the name of the secondary Availability Zone for a DB instance with multi-AZ support.

PubliclyAccessible -> (boolean)

This flag should no longer be used.

StatusInfos -> (list)

The status of a Read Replica. If the instance is not a Read Replica, this is blank.

(structure)

Provides a list of status information for a DB instance.

StatusType -> (string)

This value is currently “read replication.”

Normal -> (boolean)

Boolean value that is true if the instance is operating normally, or false if the instance is in an error state.

Status -> (string)

Status of the DB instance. For a StatusType of read replica, the values can be replicating, error, stopped, or terminated.

Message -> (string)

Details of the error if there is an error for the instance. If the instance is not in an error state, this value is blank.

StorageType -> (string)

Specifies the storage type associated with DB instance.

TdeCredentialArn -> (string)

The ARN from the key store with which the instance is associated for TDE encryption.

DbInstancePort -> (integer)

Specifies the port that the DB instance listens on. If the DB instance is part of a DB cluster, this can be a different port than the DB cluster port.

DBClusterIdentifier -> (string)

If the DB instance is a member of a DB cluster, contains the name of the DB cluster that the DB instance is a member of.

StorageEncrypted -> (boolean)

Not supported: The encryption for DB instances is managed by the DB cluster.

KmsKeyId -> (string)

Not supported: The encryption for DB instances is managed by the DB cluster.

DbiResourceId -> (string)

The AWS Region-unique, immutable identifier for the DB instance. This identifier is found in AWS CloudTrail log entries whenever the AWS KMS key for the DB instance is accessed.

CACertificateIdentifier -> (string)

The identifier of the CA certificate for this DB instance.

DomainMemberships -> (list)

Not supported

(structure)

An Active Directory Domain membership record associated with a DB instance.

Domain -> (string)

The identifier of the Active Directory Domain.

Status -> (string)

The status of the DB instance’s Active Directory Domain membership, such as joined, pending-join, failed etc).

FQDN -> (string)

The fully qualified domain name of the Active Directory Domain.

IAMRoleName -> (string)

The name of the IAM role to be used when making API calls to the Directory Service.

CopyTagsToSnapshot -> (boolean)

Specifies whether tags are copied from the DB instance to snapshots of the DB instance.

MonitoringInterval -> (integer)

The interval, in seconds, between points when Enhanced Monitoring metrics are collected for the DB instance.

EnhancedMonitoringResourceArn -> (string)

The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the Amazon CloudWatch Logs log stream that receives the Enhanced Monitoring metrics data for the DB instance.

MonitoringRoleArn -> (string)

The ARN for the IAM role that permits Neptune to send Enhanced Monitoring metrics to Amazon CloudWatch Logs.

PromotionTier -> (integer)

A value that specifies the order in which a Read Replica is promoted to the primary instance after a failure of the existing primary instance.

DBInstanceArn -> (string)

The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) for the DB instance.

Timezone -> (string)

Not supported.

IAMDatabaseAuthenticationEnabled -> (boolean)

True if AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) authentication is enabled, and otherwise false.

PerformanceInsightsEnabled -> (boolean)

(Not supported by Neptune)

PerformanceInsightsKMSKeyId -> (string)

(Not supported by Neptune)

EnabledCloudwatchLogsExports -> (list)

A list of log types that this DB instance is configured to export to CloudWatch Logs.

(string)

DeletionProtection -> (boolean)

Indicates whether or not the DB instance has deletion protection enabled. The instance can’t be deleted when deletion protection is enabled. See Deleting a DB Instance .

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