AWS CLI Command Reference

[ aws . rds ]

describe-db-clusters

Description

Returns information about provisioned Aurora DB clusters. This API supports pagination.

For more information on Amazon Aurora, see What Is Amazon Aurora? in the Amazon Aurora User Guide.

Note

This operation can also return information for Amazon Neptune DB instances and Amazon DocumentDB instances.

See also: AWS API Documentation

See ‘aws help’ for descriptions of global parameters.

describe-db-clusters is a paginated operation. Multiple API calls may be issued in order to retrieve the entire data set of results. You can disable pagination by providing the --no-paginate argument. When using --output text and the --query argument on a paginated response, the --query argument must extract data from the results of the following query expressions: DBClusters

Synopsis

  describe-db-clusters
[--db-cluster-identifier <value>]
[--filters <value>]
[--include-shared | --no-include-shared]
[--cli-input-json | --cli-input-yaml]
[--starting-token <value>]
[--page-size <value>]
[--max-items <value>]
[--generate-cli-skeleton <value>]

Options

--db-cluster-identifier (string)

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

Constraints:

  • If supplied, must match an existing DBClusterIdentifier.

--filters (list)

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

Supported filters:

  • clone-group-id - Accepts clone group identifiers. The results list will only include information about the DB clusters associated with these clone groups.

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

  • domain - Accepts Active Directory directory IDs. The results list will only include information about the DB clusters associated with these domains.

  • engine - Accepts engine names. The results list will only include information about the DB clusters for these engines.

(structure)

A filter name and value pair that is used to return a more specific list of results from a describe operation. Filters can be used to match a set of resources by specific criteria, such as IDs. The filters supported by a describe operation are documented with the describe operation.

Note

Currently, wildcards are not supported in filters.

The following actions can be filtered:

  • DescribeDBClusterBacktracks

  • DescribeDBClusterEndpoints

  • DescribeDBClusters

  • DescribeDBInstances

  • DescribePendingMaintenanceActions

Name -> (string)

The name of the filter. Filter names are case-sensitive.

Values -> (list)

One or more filter values. Filter values are case-sensitive.

(string)

Shorthand Syntax:

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

JSON Syntax:

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

--include-shared | --no-include-shared (boolean)

Optional Boolean parameter that specifies whether the output includes information about clusters shared from other Amazon Web Services accounts.

--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.

See ‘aws help’ for descriptions of global parameters.

Examples

Example 1: To describe a DB cluster

The following describe-db-clusters example retrieves the details of the specified DB cluster.

aws rds describe-db-clusters \
    --db-cluster-identifier mydbcluster

Output:

{
    "DBClusters": [
        {
            "AllocatedStorage": 1,
            "AvailabilityZones": [
                "us-east-1a",
                "us-east-1b",
                "us-east-1e"
            ],
            "BackupRetentionPeriod": 1,
            "DatabaseName": "mydbcluster",
            "DBClusterIdentifier": "mydbcluster",
            "DBClusterParameterGroup": "default.aurora-mysql5.7",
            "DBSubnetGroup": "default",
            "Status": "available",
            "EarliestRestorableTime": "2019-06-19T09:16:28.210Z",
            "Endpoint": "mydbcluster.cluster-cnpexample.us-east-1.rds.amazonaws.com",
            "ReaderEndpoint": "mydbcluster.cluster-ro-cnpexample.us-east-1.rds.amazonaws.com",
            "MultiAZ": true,
            "Engine": "aurora-mysql",
            "EngineVersion": "5.7.mysql_aurora.2.04.2",
            "LatestRestorableTime": "2019-06-20T22:38:14.908Z",
            "Port": 3306,
            "MasterUsername": "myadmin",
            "PreferredBackupWindow": "09:09-09:39",
            "PreferredMaintenanceWindow": "sat:04:09-sat:04:39",
            "ReadReplicaIdentifiers": [],
            "DBClusterMembers": [
                {
                    "DBInstanceIdentifier": "dbinstance3",
                    "IsClusterWriter": false,
                    "DBClusterParameterGroupStatus": "in-sync",
                    "PromotionTier": 1
                },
                {
                    "DBInstanceIdentifier": "dbinstance1",
                    "IsClusterWriter": false,
                    "DBClusterParameterGroupStatus": "in-sync",
                    "PromotionTier": 1
                },
                {
                    "DBInstanceIdentifier": "dbinstance2",
                    "IsClusterWriter": false,
                    "DBClusterParameterGroupStatus": "in-sync",
                    "PromotionTier": 1
                },
                {
                    "DBInstanceIdentifier": "mydbcluster",
                    "IsClusterWriter": false,
                    "DBClusterParameterGroupStatus": "in-sync",
                    "PromotionTier": 1
                },
                {
                    "DBInstanceIdentifier": "mydbcluster-us-east-1b",
                    "IsClusterWriter": false,
                    "DBClusterParameterGroupStatus": "in-sync",
                    "PromotionTier": 1
                },
                {
                    "DBInstanceIdentifier": "mydbcluster",
                    "IsClusterWriter": true,
                    "DBClusterParameterGroupStatus": "in-sync",
                    "PromotionTier": 1
                }
            ],
            "VpcSecurityGroups": [
                {
                    "VpcSecurityGroupId": "sg-0b9130572daf3dc16",
                    "Status": "active"
                }
            ],
            "HostedZoneId": "Z2R2ITUGPM61AM",
            "StorageEncrypted": true,
            "KmsKeyId": "arn:aws:kms:us-east-1:814387698303:key/AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE",
            "DbClusterResourceId": "cluster-AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE",
            "DBClusterArn": "arn:aws:rds:us-east-1:123456789012:cluster:mydbcluster",
            "AssociatedRoles": [],
            "IAMDatabaseAuthenticationEnabled": false,
            "ClusterCreateTime": "2019-04-15T14:18:42.785Z",
            "EngineMode": "provisioned",
            "DeletionProtection": false,
            "HttpEndpointEnabled": false
        }
    ]
}

Example 2: To list certain attributes of all DB clusters

The following describe-db-clusters example retrieves only the DBClusterIdentifier, Endpoint, and ReaderEndpoint attributes of all your DB clusters in the current AWS Region.

aws rds describe-db-clusters \
    --query 'DBClusters[].{DBClusterIdentifier:DBClusterIdentifier,Endpoint:Endpoint,ReaderEndpoint:ReaderEndpoint}'

Output:

[
    {
        "Endpoint": "cluster-57-2020-05-01-2270.cluster-cnpexample.us-east-1.rds.amazonaws.com",
        "ReaderEndpoint": "cluster-57-2020-05-01-2270.cluster-ro-cnpexample.us-east-1.rds.amazonaws.com",
        "DBClusterIdentifier": "cluster-57-2020-05-01-2270"
    },
    {
        "Endpoint": "cluster-57-2020-05-01-4615.cluster-cnpexample.us-east-1.rds.amazonaws.com",
        "ReaderEndpoint": "cluster-57-2020-05-01-4615.cluster-ro-cnpexample.us-east-1.rds.amazonaws.com",
        "DBClusterIdentifier": "cluster-57-2020-05-01-4615"
    },
    {
        "Endpoint": "pg2-cluster.cluster-cnpexample.us-east-1.rds.amazonaws.com",
        "ReaderEndpoint": "pg2-cluster.cluster-ro-cnpexample.us-east-1.rds.amazonaws.com",
        "DBClusterIdentifier": "pg2-cluster"
    },
    ...output omitted...
    }
]

Example 3: To list DB clusters with a specific attribute

The following describe-db-clusters example retrieves only the DBClusterIdentifier and Engine attributes of your DB clusters that use the aurora-postgresql DB engine.

aws rds describe-db-clusters \
    --query 'DBClusters[].{DBClusterIdentifier:DBClusterIdentifier,Engine:Engine} | [?Engine == `aurora-postgresql`]'

Output:

[
    {
        "Engine": "aurora-postgresql",
        "DBClusterIdentifier": "pg2-cluster"
    }
]

For more information, see Amazon Aurora DB Clusters in the Amazon Aurora User Guide.

Output

Marker -> (string)

A pagination token that can be used in a later DescribeDBClusters request.

DBClusters -> (list)

Contains a list of DB clusters for the user.

(structure)

Contains the details of an Amazon Aurora DB cluster.

This data type is used as a response element in the DescribeDBClusters , StopDBCluster , and StartDBCluster actions.

AllocatedStorage -> (integer)

For all database engines except Amazon Aurora, AllocatedStorage specifies the allocated storage size in gibibytes (GiB). For Aurora, AllocatedStorage always returns 1, because Aurora DB cluster storage size isn’t fixed, but instead automatically adjusts as needed.

AvailabilityZones -> (list)

Provides the list of Availability Zones (AZs) where instances in the DB cluster can be created.

(string)

BackupRetentionPeriod -> (integer)

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

CharacterSetName -> (string)

If present, specifies the name of the character set that this cluster is associated with.

DatabaseName -> (string)

Contains the name of the initial database of this DB cluster that was provided at create time, if one was specified when the DB cluster was created. This same name is returned for the life of the DB cluster.

DBClusterIdentifier -> (string)

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

DBClusterParameterGroup -> (string)

Specifies the name of the DB cluster parameter group for the DB cluster.

DBSubnetGroup -> (string)

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

Status -> (string)

Specifies the current state of this DB cluster.

AutomaticRestartTime -> (timestamp)

The time when a stopped DB cluster is restarted automatically.

PercentProgress -> (string)

Specifies the progress of the operation as a percentage.

EarliestRestorableTime -> (timestamp)

The earliest time to which a database can be restored with point-in-time restore.

Endpoint -> (string)

Specifies the connection endpoint for the primary instance of the DB cluster.

ReaderEndpoint -> (string)

The reader endpoint for the DB cluster. The reader endpoint for a DB cluster load-balances connections across the Aurora Replicas that are available in a DB cluster. As clients request new connections to the reader endpoint, Aurora distributes the connection requests among the Aurora Replicas in the DB cluster. This functionality can help balance your read workload across multiple Aurora Replicas in your DB cluster.

If a failover occurs, and the Aurora Replica that you are connected to is promoted to be the primary instance, your connection is dropped. To continue sending your read workload to other Aurora Replicas in the cluster, you can then reconnect to the reader endpoint.

CustomEndpoints -> (list)

Identifies all custom endpoints associated with the cluster.

(string)

MultiAZ -> (boolean)

Specifies whether the DB cluster has instances in multiple Availability Zones.

Engine -> (string)

The name of the database engine to be used for this DB cluster.

EngineVersion -> (string)

Indicates the database engine version.

LatestRestorableTime -> (timestamp)

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

Port -> (integer)

Specifies the port that the database engine is listening on.

MasterUsername -> (string)

Contains the master username for the DB cluster.

DBClusterOptionGroupMemberships -> (list)

Provides the list of option group memberships for this DB cluster.

(structure)

Contains status information for a DB cluster option group.

DBClusterOptionGroupName -> (string)

Specifies the name of the DB cluster option group.

Status -> (string)

Specifies the status of the DB cluster option group.

PreferredBackupWindow -> (string)

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

PreferredMaintenanceWindow -> (string)

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

ReplicationSourceIdentifier -> (string)

Contains the identifier of the source DB cluster if this DB cluster is a read replica.

ReadReplicaIdentifiers -> (list)

Contains one or more identifiers of the read replicas associated with this DB cluster.

(string)

DBClusterMembers -> (list)

Provides the list of instances that make up the DB cluster.

(structure)

Contains information about an instance that is part of a DB cluster.

DBInstanceIdentifier -> (string)

Specifies the instance identifier for this member of the DB cluster.

IsClusterWriter -> (boolean)

Value that is true if the cluster member is the primary instance for the DB cluster and false otherwise.

DBClusterParameterGroupStatus -> (string)

Specifies the status of the DB cluster parameter group for this member of the DB cluster.

PromotionTier -> (integer)

A value that specifies the order in which an Aurora Replica is promoted to the primary instance after a failure of the existing primary instance. For more information, see Fault Tolerance for an Aurora DB Cluster in the Amazon Aurora User Guide .

VpcSecurityGroups -> (list)

Provides a list of VPC security groups that the DB cluster 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.

HostedZoneId -> (string)

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

StorageEncrypted -> (boolean)

Specifies whether the DB cluster is encrypted.

KmsKeyId -> (string)

If StorageEncrypted is enabled, the Amazon Web Services KMS key identifier for the encrypted DB cluster.

The Amazon Web Services KMS key identifier is the key ARN, key ID, alias ARN, or alias name for the KMS key.

DbClusterResourceId -> (string)

The Amazon Web Services Region-unique, immutable identifier for the DB cluster. This identifier is found in Amazon Web Services CloudTrail log entries whenever the KMS key for the DB cluster is accessed.

DBClusterArn -> (string)

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

AssociatedRoles -> (list)

Provides a list of the Amazon Web Services Identity and Access Management (IAM) roles that are associated with the DB cluster. IAM roles that are associated with a DB cluster grant permission for the DB cluster to access other Amazon Web Services on your behalf.

(structure)

Describes an Amazon Web Services Identity and Access Management (IAM) role that is associated with a DB cluster.

RoleArn -> (string)

The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the IAM role that is associated with the DB cluster.

Status -> (string)

Describes the state of association between the IAM role and the DB cluster. The Status property returns one of the following values:

  • ACTIVE - the IAM role ARN is associated with the DB cluster and can be used to access other Amazon Web Services on your behalf.

  • PENDING - the IAM role ARN is being associated with the DB cluster.

  • INVALID - the IAM role ARN is associated with the DB cluster, but the DB cluster is unable to assume the IAM role in order to access other Amazon Web Services on your behalf.

FeatureName -> (string)

The name of the feature associated with the Amazon Web Services Identity and Access Management (IAM) role. For information about supported feature names, see DBEngineVersion .

IAMDatabaseAuthenticationEnabled -> (boolean)

A value that indicates whether the mapping of Amazon Web Services Identity and Access Management (IAM) accounts to database accounts is enabled.

CloneGroupId -> (string)

Identifies the clone group to which the DB cluster is associated.

ClusterCreateTime -> (timestamp)

Specifies the time when the DB cluster was created, in Universal Coordinated Time (UTC).

EarliestBacktrackTime -> (timestamp)

The earliest time to which a DB cluster can be backtracked.

BacktrackWindow -> (long)

The target backtrack window, in seconds. If this value is set to 0, backtracking is disabled for the DB cluster. Otherwise, backtracking is enabled.

BacktrackConsumedChangeRecords -> (long)

The number of change records stored for Backtrack.

EnabledCloudwatchLogsExports -> (list)

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

Log types vary by DB engine. For information about the log types for each DB engine, see Amazon RDS Database Log Files in the Amazon Aurora User Guide.

(string)

Capacity -> (integer)

The current capacity of an Aurora Serverless DB cluster. The capacity is 0 (zero) when the cluster is paused.

For more information about Aurora Serverless, see Using Amazon Aurora Serverless in the Amazon Aurora User Guide .

EngineMode -> (string)

The DB engine mode of the DB cluster, either provisioned , serverless , parallelquery , global , or multimaster .

For more information, see CreateDBCluster .

ScalingConfigurationInfo -> (structure)

Shows the scaling configuration for an Aurora DB cluster in serverless DB engine mode.

For more information, see Using Amazon Aurora Serverless in the Amazon Aurora User Guide .

MinCapacity -> (integer)

The maximum capacity for the Aurora DB cluster in serverless DB engine mode.

MaxCapacity -> (integer)

The maximum capacity for an Aurora DB cluster in serverless DB engine mode.

AutoPause -> (boolean)

A value that indicates whether automatic pause is allowed for the Aurora DB cluster in serverless DB engine mode.

When the value is set to false for an Aurora Serverless DB cluster, the DB cluster automatically resumes.

SecondsUntilAutoPause -> (integer)

The remaining amount of time, in seconds, before the Aurora DB cluster in serverless mode is paused. A DB cluster can be paused only when it’s idle (it has no connections).

TimeoutAction -> (string)

The action that occurs when Aurora times out while attempting to change the capacity of an Aurora Serverless cluster. The value is either ForceApplyCapacityChange or RollbackCapacityChange .

ForceApplyCapacityChange , the default, sets the capacity to the specified value as soon as possible.

RollbackCapacityChange ignores the capacity change if a scaling point isn’t found in the timeout period.

SecondsBeforeTimeout -> (integer)

The number of seconds before scaling times out. What happens when an attempted scaling action times out is determined by the TimeoutAction setting.

DeletionProtection -> (boolean)

Indicates if the DB cluster has deletion protection enabled. The database can’t be deleted when deletion protection is enabled.

HttpEndpointEnabled -> (boolean)

A value that indicates whether the HTTP endpoint for an Aurora Serverless DB cluster is enabled.

When enabled, the HTTP endpoint provides a connectionless web service API for running SQL queries on the Aurora Serverless DB cluster. You can also query your database from inside the RDS console with the query editor.

For more information, see Using the Data API for Aurora Serverless in the Amazon Aurora User Guide .

ActivityStreamMode -> (string)

The mode of the database activity stream. Database events such as a change or access generate an activity stream event. The database session can handle these events either synchronously or asynchronously.

ActivityStreamStatus -> (string)

The status of the database activity stream.

ActivityStreamKmsKeyId -> (string)

The Amazon Web Services KMS key identifier used for encrypting messages in the database activity stream.

The Amazon Web Services KMS key identifier is the key ARN, key ID, alias ARN, or alias name for the KMS key.

ActivityStreamKinesisStreamName -> (string)

The name of the Amazon Kinesis data stream used for the database activity stream.

CopyTagsToSnapshot -> (boolean)

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

CrossAccountClone -> (boolean)

Specifies whether the DB cluster is a clone of a DB cluster owned by a different Amazon Web Services account.

DomainMemberships -> (list)

The Active Directory Domain membership records associated with the DB cluster.

(structure)

An Active Directory Domain membership record associated with the DB instance or cluster.

Domain -> (string)

The identifier of the Active Directory Domain.

Status -> (string)

The status of the Active Directory Domain membership for the DB instance or cluster. Values include joined, pending-join, failed, and so on.

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.

TagList -> (list)

A list of tags. For more information, see Tagging Amazon RDS Resources in the Amazon RDS User Guide.

(structure)

Metadata assigned to an Amazon RDS resource consisting of a key-value pair.

Key -> (string)

A key is the required name of the tag. The string value can be from 1 to 128 Unicode characters in length and can’t be prefixed with aws: or rds: . The string can only contain only the set of Unicode letters, digits, white-space, ‘_’, ‘.’, ‘:’, ‘/’, ‘=’, ‘+’, ‘-‘, ‘@’ (Java regex: “^([\p{L}\p{Z}\p{N}_.:/=+-@]*)$”).

Value -> (string)

A value is the optional value of the tag. The string value can be from 1 to 256 Unicode characters in length and can’t be prefixed with aws: or rds: . The string can only contain only the set of Unicode letters, digits, white-space, ‘_’, ‘.’, ‘:’, ‘/’, ‘=’, ‘+’, ‘-‘, ‘@’ (Java regex: “^([\p{L}\p{Z}\p{N}_.:/=+-@]*)$”).

GlobalWriteForwardingStatus -> (string)

Specifies whether a secondary cluster in an Aurora global database has write forwarding enabled, not enabled, or is in the process of enabling it.

GlobalWriteForwardingRequested -> (boolean)

Specifies whether you have requested to enable write forwarding for a secondary cluster in an Aurora global database. Because write forwarding takes time to enable, check the value of GlobalWriteForwardingStatus to confirm that the request has completed before using the write forwarding feature for this cluster.

PendingModifiedValues -> (structure)

A value that specifies that changes to the DB cluster are pending. This element is only included when changes are pending. Specific changes are identified by subelements.

PendingCloudwatchLogsExports -> (structure)

A list of the log types whose configuration is still pending. In other words, these log types are in the process of being activated or deactivated.

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)

DBClusterIdentifier -> (string)

The DBClusterIdentifier value for the DB cluster.

MasterUserPassword -> (string)

The master credentials for the DB cluster.

IAMDatabaseAuthenticationEnabled -> (boolean)

A value that indicates whether mapping of Amazon Web Services Identity and Access Management (IAM) accounts to database accounts is enabled.

EngineVersion -> (string)

The database engine version.

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