create-custom-db-engine-version¶

Description¶

Creates a custom DB engine version (CEV). A CEV is a binary volume snapshot of a database engine and specific AMI. The supported engines are the following:

Oracle Database 12.1 Enterprise Edition with the January 2021 or later RU/RUR
Oracle Database 19c Enterprise Edition with the January 2021 or later RU/RUR

Amazon RDS, which is a fully managed service, supplies the Amazon Machine Image (AMI) and database software. The Amazon RDS database software is preinstalled, so you need only select a DB engine and version, and create your database. With Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle, you upload your database installation files in Amazon S3.

When you create a custom engine version, you specify the files in a JSON document called a CEV manifest. This document describes installation .zip files stored in Amazon S3. RDS Custom creates your CEV from the installation files that you provided. This service model is called Bring Your Own Media (BYOM).

Creation takes approximately two hours. If creation fails, RDS Custom issues RDS-EVENT-0196 with the message Creation failed for custom engine version , and includes details about the failure. For example, the event prints missing files.

After you create the CEV, it is available for use. You can create multiple CEVs, and create multiple RDS Custom instances from any CEV. You can also change the status of a CEV to make it available or inactive.

Note

The MediaImport service that imports files from Amazon S3 to create CEVs isn’t integrated with Amazon Web Services CloudTrail. If you turn on data logging for Amazon RDS in CloudTrail, calls to the CreateCustomDbEngineVersion event aren’t logged. However, you might see calls from the API gateway that accesses your Amazon S3 bucket. These calls originate from the MediaImport service for the CreateCustomDbEngineVersion event.

For more information, see Creating a CEV in the Amazon RDS User Guide .

Synopsis¶

  create-custom-db-engine-version
--engine <value>
--engine-version <value>
--database-installation-files-s3-bucket-name <value>
[--database-installation-files-s3-prefix <value>]
--kms-key-id <value>
[--description <value>]
--manifest <value>
[--tags <value>]
[--cli-input-json | --cli-input-yaml]
[--generate-cli-skeleton <value>]
[--debug]
[--endpoint-url <value>]
[--no-verify-ssl]
[--no-paginate]
[--output <value>]
[--query <value>]
[--profile <value>]
[--region <value>]
[--version <value>]
[--color <value>]
[--no-sign-request]
[--ca-bundle <value>]
[--cli-read-timeout <value>]
[--cli-connect-timeout <value>]
[--cli-binary-format <value>]
[--no-cli-pager]
[--cli-auto-prompt]
[--no-cli-auto-prompt]

Options¶

--engine (string)

The database engine to use for your custom engine version (CEV). The only supported value is custom-oracle-ee .

--engine-version (string)

The name of your CEV. The name format is 19.*customized_string* . For example, a valid CEV name is 19.my_cev1 . This setting is required for RDS Custom for Oracle, but optional for Amazon RDS. The combination of Engine and EngineVersion is unique per customer per Region.

--database-installation-files-s3-bucket-name (string)

The name of an Amazon S3 bucket that contains database installation files for your CEV. For example, a valid bucket name is my-custom-installation-files .

--database-installation-files-s3-prefix (string)

The Amazon S3 directory that contains the database installation files for your CEV. For example, a valid bucket name is 123456789012/cev1 . If this setting isn’t specified, no prefix is assumed.

--kms-key-id (string)

The Amazon Web Services KMS key identifier for an encrypted CEV. A symmetric encryption KMS key is required for RDS Custom, but optional for Amazon RDS.

If you have an existing symmetric encryption KMS key in your account, you can use it with RDS Custom. No further action is necessary. If you don’t already have a symmetric encryption KMS key in your account, follow the instructions in Creating a symmetric encryption KMS key in the Amazon Web Services Key Management Service Developer Guide .

You can choose the same symmetric encryption key when you create a CEV and a DB instance, or choose different keys.

--description (string)

An optional description of your CEV.

--manifest (string)

The CEV manifest, which is a JSON document that describes the installation .zip files stored in Amazon S3. Specify the name/value pairs in a file or a quoted string. RDS Custom applies the patches in the order in which they are listed.

The following JSON fields are valid:

MediaImportTemplateVersion

Version of the CEV manifest. The date is in the format YYYY-MM-DD .

databaseInstallationFileNames

Ordered list of installation files for the CEV.

opatchFileNames

Ordered list of OPatch installers used for the Oracle DB engine.

psuRuPatchFileNames

The PSU and RU patches for this CEV.

OtherPatchFileNames

The patches that are not in the list of PSU and RU patches. Amazon RDS applies these patches after applying the PSU and RU patches.

For more information, see Creating the CEV manifest in the Amazon RDS User Guide .

--tags (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.

For more information, see Tagging Amazon RDS Resources in the Amazon RDS User Guide.

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}_.:/=+-@]*)$”).

Shorthand Syntax:

Key=string,Value=string ...

JSON Syntax:

[
  {
    "Key": "string",
    "Value": "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.

--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.

Global Options¶

--debug (boolean)

Turn on debug logging.

--endpoint-url (string)

Override command’s default URL with the given URL.

--no-verify-ssl (boolean)

By default, the AWS CLI uses SSL when communicating with AWS services. For each SSL connection, the AWS CLI will verify SSL certificates. This option overrides the default behavior of verifying SSL certificates.

--no-paginate (boolean)

Disable automatic pagination.

--output (string)

The formatting style for command output.

json
text
table
yaml
yaml-stream

--query (string)

A JMESPath query to use in filtering the response data.

--profile (string)

Use a specific profile from your credential file.

--region (string)

The region to use. Overrides config/env settings.

--version (string)

Display the version of this tool.

--color (string)

Turn on/off color output.

on
off
auto

--no-sign-request (boolean)

Do not sign requests. Credentials will not be loaded if this argument is provided.

--ca-bundle (string)

The CA certificate bundle to use when verifying SSL certificates. Overrides config/env settings.

--cli-read-timeout (int)

The maximum socket read time in seconds. If the value is set to 0, the socket read will be blocking and not timeout. The default value is 60 seconds.

--cli-connect-timeout (int)

The maximum socket connect time in seconds. If the value is set to 0, the socket connect will be blocking and not timeout. The default value is 60 seconds.

--cli-binary-format (string)

The formatting style to be used for binary blobs. The default format is base64. The base64 format expects binary blobs to be provided as a base64 encoded string. The raw-in-base64-out format preserves compatibility with AWS CLI V1 behavior and binary values must be passed literally. When providing contents from a file that map to a binary blob fileb:// will always be treated as binary and use the file contents directly regardless of the cli-binary-format setting. When using file:// the file contents will need to properly formatted for the configured cli-binary-format.

base64
raw-in-base64-out

--no-cli-pager (boolean)

Disable cli pager for output.

--cli-auto-prompt (boolean)

Automatically prompt for CLI input parameters.

--no-cli-auto-prompt (boolean)

Disable automatically prompt for CLI input parameters.

Output¶

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.

For more information, see Tagging Amazon RDS Resources in the Amazon RDS User Guide.

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.

CustomDBEngineVersionManifest -> (string)

JSON string that lists the installation files and parameters that RDS Custom uses to create a custom engine version (CEV). RDS Custom applies the patches in the order in which they’re listed in the manifest. You can set the Oracle home, Oracle base, and UNIX/Linux user and group using the installation parameters. For more information, see JSON fields in the CEV manifest in the Amazon RDS User Guide .

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