describe-db-engine-versions¶

Description¶

Returns a list of the available DB engines.

Synopsis¶

  describe-db-engine-versions
[--engine <value>]
[--engine-version <value>]
[--db-parameter-group-family <value>]
[--filters <value>]
[--default-only | --no-default-only]
[--list-supported-character-sets | --no-list-supported-character-sets]
[--list-supported-timezones | --no-list-supported-timezones]
[--include-all | --no-include-all]
[--cli-input-json | --cli-input-yaml]
[--starting-token <value>]
[--page-size <value>]
[--max-items <value>]
[--generate-cli-skeleton <value>]

Options¶

--engine (string)

The database engine to return.

Valid Values:

aurora (for MySQL 5.6-compatible Aurora)

aurora-mysql (for MySQL 5.7-compatible and MySQL 8.0-compatible Aurora)

aurora-postgresql

mariadb

mysql

oracle-ee

oracle-ee-cdb

oracle-se2

oracle-se2-cdb

postgres

sqlserver-ee

sqlserver-se

sqlserver-ex

sqlserver-web

--engine-version (string)

The database engine version to return.

Example: 5.1.49

--db-parameter-group-family (string)

The name of a specific DB parameter group family to return details for.

Constraints:

If supplied, must match an existing DBParameterGroupFamily.

--filters (list)

A filter that specifies one or more DB engine versions to describe.

Supported filters:

db-parameter-group-family - Accepts parameter groups family names. The results list only includes information about the DB engine versions for these parameter group families.

engine - Accepts engine names. The results list only includes information about the DB engine versions for these engines.

engine-mode - Accepts DB engine modes. The results list only includes information about the DB engine versions for these engine modes. Valid DB engine modes are the following:

global

multimaster

parallelquery

provisioned

serverless

engine-version - Accepts engine versions. The results list only includes information about the DB engine versions for these engine versions.

status - Accepts engine version statuses. The results list only includes information about the DB engine versions for these statuses. Valid statuses are the following:

available

deprecated

(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", ...]
  }
  ...
]

--default-only | --no-default-only (boolean)

A value that indicates whether only the default version of the specified engine or engine and major version combination is returned.

--list-supported-character-sets | --no-list-supported-character-sets (boolean)

A value that indicates whether to list the supported character sets for each engine version.

If this parameter is enabled and the requested engine supports the CharacterSetName parameter for CreateDBInstance , the response includes a list of supported character sets for each engine version.

For RDS Custom, the default is not to list supported character sets. If you set ListSupportedCharacterSets to true , RDS Custom returns no results.

--list-supported-timezones | --no-list-supported-timezones (boolean)

A value that indicates whether to list the supported time zones for each engine version.

If this parameter is enabled and the requested engine supports the TimeZone parameter for CreateDBInstance , the response includes a list of supported time zones for each engine version.

For RDS Custom, the default is not to list supported time zones. If you set ListSupportedTimezones to true , RDS Custom returns no results.

--include-all | --no-include-all (boolean)

A value that indicates whether to include engine versions that aren’t available in the list. The default is to list only available engine versions.

--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. The generated JSON skeleton is not stable between versions of the AWS CLI and there are no backwards compatibility guarantees in the JSON skeleton generated.

See ‘aws help’ for descriptions of global parameters.

Examples¶

Note

To use the following examples, you must have the AWS CLI installed and configured. See the Getting started guide in the AWS CLI User Guide for more information.

Unless otherwise stated, all examples have unix-like quotation rules. These examples will need to be adapted to your terminal’s quoting rules. See Using quotation marks with strings in the AWS CLI User Guide .

To describe the DB engine versions for the MySQL DB engine

The following describe-db-engine-versions example displays details about each of the DB engine versions for the specified DB engine.

aws rds describe-db-engine-versions \
    --engine mysql

Output:

{
    "DBEngineVersions": [
        {
            "Engine": "mysql",
            "EngineVersion": "5.5.46",
            "DBParameterGroupFamily": "mysql5.5",
            "DBEngineDescription": "MySQL Community Edition",
            "DBEngineVersionDescription": "MySQL 5.5.46",
            "ValidUpgradeTarget": [
                {
                    "Engine": "mysql",
                    "EngineVersion": "5.5.53",
                    "Description": "MySQL 5.5.53",
                    "AutoUpgrade": false,
                    "IsMajorVersionUpgrade": false
                },
                {
                    "Engine": "mysql",
                    "EngineVersion": "5.5.54",
                    "Description": "MySQL 5.5.54",
                    "AutoUpgrade": false,
                    "IsMajorVersionUpgrade": false
                },
                {
                    "Engine": "mysql",
                    "EngineVersion": "5.5.57",
                    "Description": "MySQL 5.5.57",
                    "AutoUpgrade": false,
                    "IsMajorVersionUpgrade": false
                },
                ...some output truncated...
            ]
        }

For more information, see What Is Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS)? in the Amazon RDS User Guide.

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 .

DBEngineVersions -> (list)

A list of DBEngineVersion elements.

(structure)

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

Engine -> (string)

The name of the database engine.

EngineVersion -> (string)

The version number of the database engine.

DBParameterGroupFamily -> (string)

The name of the DB parameter group family for the database engine.

DBEngineDescription -> (string)

The description of the database engine.

DBEngineVersionDescription -> (string)

The description of the database engine version.

DefaultCharacterSet -> (structure)

The default character set for new instances of this engine version, if the CharacterSetName parameter of the CreateDBInstance API isn’t specified.

CharacterSetName -> (string)

The name of the character set.

CharacterSetDescription -> (string)

The description of the character set.

SupportedCharacterSets -> (list)

A list of the character sets supported by this engine for the CharacterSetName parameter of the CreateDBInstance operation.

(structure)

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

CharacterSetName -> (string)

The name of the character set.

CharacterSetDescription -> (string)

The description of the character set.

SupportedNcharCharacterSets -> (list)

A list of the character sets supported by the Oracle DB engine for the NcharCharacterSetName parameter of the CreateDBInstance operation.

(structure)

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

CharacterSetName -> (string)

The name of the character set.

CharacterSetDescription -> (string)

The description of the character set.

ValidUpgradeTarget -> (list)

A list of engine versions that this database engine version can be upgraded to.

(structure)

The version of the database engine that a DB instance can be upgraded to.

Engine -> (string)

The name of the upgrade target database engine.

EngineVersion -> (string)

The version number of the upgrade target database engine.

Description -> (string)

The version of the database engine that a DB instance can be upgraded to.

AutoUpgrade -> (boolean)

A value that indicates whether the target version is applied to any source DB instances that have AutoMinorVersionUpgrade set to true.

IsMajorVersionUpgrade -> (boolean)

A value that indicates whether upgrading to the target version requires upgrading the major version of the database engine.

SupportedEngineModes -> (list)

A list of the supported DB engine modes for the target engine version.

(string)

SupportsParallelQuery -> (boolean)

A value that indicates whether you can use Aurora parallel query with the target engine version.

SupportsGlobalDatabases -> (boolean)

A value that indicates whether you can use Aurora global databases with the target engine version.

SupportsBabelfish -> (boolean)

A value that indicates whether you can use Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL with the target engine version.

SupportedTimezones -> (list)

A list of the time zones supported by this engine for the Timezone parameter of the CreateDBInstance action.

(structure)

A time zone associated with a DBInstance or a DBSnapshot . This data type is an element in the response to the DescribeDBInstances , the DescribeDBSnapshots , and the DescribeDBEngineVersions actions.

TimezoneName -> (string)

The name of the time zone.

ExportableLogTypes -> (list)

The types of logs that the database engine has available for export to CloudWatch Logs.

(string)

SupportsLogExportsToCloudwatchLogs -> (boolean)

A value that indicates whether the engine version supports exporting the log types specified by ExportableLogTypes to CloudWatch Logs.

SupportsReadReplica -> (boolean)

Indicates whether the database engine version supports read replicas.

SupportedEngineModes -> (list)

A list of the supported DB engine modes.

(string)

SupportedFeatureNames -> (list)

A list of features supported by the DB engine.

The supported features vary by DB engine and DB engine version.

To determine the supported features for a specific DB engine and DB engine version using the CLI, use the following command:

aws rds describe-db-engine-versions --engine <engine_name> --engine-version <engine_version>

For example, to determine the supported features for RDS for PostgreSQL version 13.3 using the CLI, use the following command:

aws rds describe-db-engine-versions --engine postgres --engine-version 13.3

The supported features are listed under SupportedFeatureNames in the output.

(string)

Status -> (string)

The status of the DB engine version, either available or deprecated .

SupportsParallelQuery -> (boolean)

A value that indicates whether you can use Aurora parallel query with a specific DB engine version.

SupportsGlobalDatabases -> (boolean)

A value that indicates whether you can use Aurora global databases with a specific DB engine version.

MajorEngineVersion -> (string)

The major engine version of the CEV.

DatabaseInstallationFilesS3BucketName -> (string)

The name of the Amazon S3 bucket that contains your database installation files.

DatabaseInstallationFilesS3Prefix -> (string)

The Amazon S3 directory that contains the database installation files. If not specified, then no prefix is assumed.

DBEngineVersionArn -> (string)

The ARN of the custom engine version.

KMSKeyId -> (string)

The Amazon Web Services KMS key identifier for an encrypted CEV. This parameter is required for RDS Custom, but optional for Amazon RDS.

CreateTime -> (timestamp)

The creation time of the DB engine version.

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}_.:/=+-@]*)$”).

SupportsBabelfish -> (boolean)

A value that indicates whether the engine version supports Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL.

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