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DescribeDBEngineVersions

Description

Returns a list of the available DB engines.

Request Parameters

For information about the common parameters that all actions use, see Common Parameters.

DBParameterGroupFamily

The name of a specific DB Parameter Group family to return details for.

Constraints:

Must be 1 to 255 alphanumeric characters
First character must be a letter
Cannot end with a hyphen or contain two consecutive hyphens

Type: String

Required: No

DefaultOnly

Indicates that only the default version of the specified engine or engine and major version combination is returned.

Type: Boolean

Required: No

Engine

The database engine to return.

Type: String

Required: No

EngineVersion

The database engine version to return.

Example: 5.1.49

Type: String

Required: No

ListSupportedCharacterSets

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

Type: Boolean

Required: No

Marker

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.

Type: String

Required: No

MaxRecords

The maximum number of records to include in the response. If more than the MaxRecords value is available, a pagination token called a marker is included in the response so that the following results can be retrieved.

Default: 100

Constraints: minimum 20, maximum 100

Type: Integer

Required: No

Response Elements

The following elements are returned in a DescribeDBEngineVersionsResult structure.

DBEngineVersions

A list of DBEngineVersion elements.

Type: DBEngineVersion list

Marker

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.

Type: String

Examples

Sample Request

https://rds.amazonaws.com/
   ?Action=DescribeDBEngineVersions
   &MaxRecords=100
   &Version=2013-05-15
   &SignatureVersion=2
   &SignatureMethod=HmacSHA256
   &Timestamp=2011-05-23T07%3A34%3A17.435Z
   &AWSAccessKeyId=<AWS Access Key ID>
   &Signature=<Signature>

Sample Response

<DescribeDBEngineVersionsResponse xmlns="http://rds.amazonaws.com/doc/2013-05-15/">
  <DescribeDBEngineVersionsResult>
    <DBEngineVersions>
      <DBEngineVersion>
        <DBParameterGroupFamily>mysql5.1</DBParameterGroupFamily>
        <Engine>mysql</Engine>
        <EngineVersion>5.1.42</EngineVersion>
      </DBEngineVersion>
      <DBEngineVersion>
        <DBParameterGroupFamily>mysql5.1</DBParameterGroupFamily>
        <Engine>mysql</Engine>
        <DBEngineDescription>Use instead of mysql5.1</DBEngineDescription>
        <EngineVersion>5.1.45</EngineVersion>
        <DBEngineVersionDescription>yaSSL Security Fixes</DBEngineVersionDescription>
      </DBEngineVersion>
      <DBEngineVersion>
        <DBParameterGroupFamily>mysql5.1</DBParameterGroupFamily>
        <Engine>mysql</Engine>
        <DBEngineDescription>Use instead of mysql5.1</DBEngineDescription>
        <EngineVersion>5.1.47</EngineVersion>
        <DBEngineVersionDescription>MySQL 5.1.47.R1 with InnoDB Plugin 1.0.8</DBEngineVersionDescription>
      </DBEngineVersion>
      <DBEngineVersion>
        <DBParameterGroupFamily>mysql5.1</DBParameterGroupFamily>
        <Engine>mysql</Engine>
        <DBEngineDescription>Use instead of mysql5.1</DBEngineDescription>
        <EngineVersion>5.1.48</EngineVersion>
        <DBEngineVersionDescription>MySQL 5.1.47.R1 with InnoDB Plugin 1.0.8</DBEngineVersionDescription>
      </DBEngineVersion>
      <DBEngineVersion>
        <DBParameterGroupFamily>mysql5.1</DBParameterGroupFamily>
        <Engine>mysql</Engine>
        <DBEngineDescription>Use instead of mysql5.1</DBEngineDescription>
        <EngineVersion>5.1.49</EngineVersion>
        <DBEngineVersionDescription>MySQL 5.1.49-R1 with innodb plugin</DBEngineVersionDescription>
      </DBEngineVersion>
      <DBEngineVersion>
        <DBParameterGroupFamily>mysql5.1</DBParameterGroupFamily>
        <Engine>mysql</Engine>
        <DBEngineDescription>Use instead of mysql5.1</DBEngineDescription>
        <EngineVersion>5.1.50</EngineVersion>
        <DBEngineVersionDescription>MySQL 5.1.50-R3</DBEngineVersionDescription>
      </DBEngineVersion>
      <DBEngineVersion>
        <DBParameterGroupFamily>mysql5.5</DBParameterGroupFamily>
        <Engine>mysql</Engine>
        <DBEngineDescription>Use instead of mysql5.1</DBEngineDescription>
        <EngineVersion>5.5.7</EngineVersion>
        <DBEngineVersionDescription>MySQL 5.5.7.R1</DBEngineVersionDescription>
      </DBEngineVersion>
      <DBEngineVersion>
        <DBParameterGroupFamily>oracle-ee-11.2</DBParameterGroupFamily>
        <Engine>oracle-ee</Engine>
        <DBEngineDescription>Oracle Database Server EE</DBEngineDescription>
        <EngineVersion>11.2.0.2</EngineVersion>
        <DBEngineVersionDescription>Oracle EE release</DBEngineVersionDescription>
        <CharacterSet>
            <CharacterSetName>AL32UTF8</CharacterSetName>
            <CharacterSetDescription>Unicode 5.0 UTF-8 Universal character set</CharacterSetDescription>
        </CharacterSet> 
      </DBEngineVersion>
      <DBEngineVersion>
        <DBParameterGroupFamily>oracle-ee-11.2</DBParameterGroupFamily>
        <Engine>oracle-ee</Engine>
        <DBEngineDescription>Oracle Database Server EE</DBEngineDescription>
        <EngineVersion>11.2.0.2.v2</EngineVersion>
        <DBEngineVersionDescription>First Oracle Enterprise Edition One - DB Engine Version 11.2.0.2.v2</DBEngineVersionDescription>
        <CharacterSet>
            <CharacterSetName>AL32UTF8</CharacterSetName>
            <CharacterSetDescription>Unicode 5.0 UTF-8 Universal character set</CharacterSetDescription>
        </CharacterSet> 
      </DBEngineVersion>
      <DBEngineVersion>
        <DBParameterGroupFamily>oracle-ee-11.2</DBParameterGroupFamily>
        <Engine>oracle-ee</Engine>
        <DBEngineDescription>Oracle Database Server EE</DBEngineDescription>
        <EngineVersion>11.2.0.2.v3</EngineVersion>
        <DBEngineVersionDescription>Oracle EE release</DBEngineVersionDescription>
        <CharacterSet>
            <CharacterSetName>AL32UTF8</CharacterSetName>
            <CharacterSetDescription>Unicode 5.0 UTF-8 Universal character set</CharacterSetDescription>
        </CharacterSet> 
      </DBEngineVersion>
      <DBEngineVersion>
        <DBParameterGroupFamily>oracle-se-11.2</DBParameterGroupFamily>
        <Engine>oracle-se</Engine>
        <DBEngineDescription>Oracle Database Server SE</DBEngineDescription>
        <EngineVersion>11.2.0.2</EngineVersion>
        <DBEngineVersionDescription>Oracle SE release</DBEngineVersionDescription>
        <CharacterSet>
            <CharacterSetName>AL32UTF8</CharacterSetName>
            <CharacterSetDescription>Unicode 5.0 UTF-8 Universal character set</CharacterSetDescription>
        </CharacterSet> 
      </DBEngineVersion>
      <DBEngineVersion>
        <DBParameterGroupFamily>oracle-se-11.2</DBParameterGroupFamily>
        <Engine>oracle-se</Engine>
        <DBEngineDescription>Oracle Database Server SE</DBEngineDescription>
        <EngineVersion>11.2.0.2.v2</EngineVersion>
        <DBEngineVersionDescription>Oracle SE release</DBEngineVersionDescription>
        <CharacterSet>
            <CharacterSetName>AL32UTF8</CharacterSetName>
            <CharacterSetDescription>Unicode 5.0 UTF-8 Universal character set</CharacterSetDescription>
        </CharacterSet> 
      </DBEngineVersion>
      <DBEngineVersion>
        <DBParameterGroupFamily>oracle-se-11.2</DBParameterGroupFamily>
        <Engine>oracle-se</Engine>
        <DBEngineDescription>Oracle Database Server SE</DBEngineDescription>
        <EngineVersion>11.2.0.2.v3</EngineVersion>
        <DBEngineVersionDescription>Oracle SE release</DBEngineVersionDescription>
        <CharacterSet>
            <CharacterSetName>AL32UTF8</CharacterSetName>
            <CharacterSetDescription>Unicode 5.0 UTF-8 Universal character set</CharacterSetDescription>
        </CharacterSet> 
      </DBEngineVersion>
      <DBEngineVersion>
        <DBParameterGroupFamily>oracle-se1-11.2</DBParameterGroupFamily>
        <Engine>oracle-se1</Engine>
        <DBEngineDescription>Oracle Database Server SE1</DBEngineDescription>
        <EngineVersion>11.2.0.2</EngineVersion>
        <DBEngineVersionDescription>Oracle SE1 release</DBEngineVersionDescription>
        <CharacterSet>
            <CharacterSetName>AL32UTF8</CharacterSetName>
            <CharacterSetDescription>Unicode 5.0 UTF-8 Universal character set</CharacterSetDescription>
        </CharacterSet> 
      </DBEngineVersion>
      <DBEngineVersion>
        <DBParameterGroupFamily>oracle-se1-11.2</DBParameterGroupFamily>
        <Engine>oracle-se1</Engine>
        <DBEngineDescription>Oracle Database Server SE1</DBEngineDescription>
        <EngineVersion>11.2.0.2.v2</EngineVersion>
        <DBEngineVersionDescription>Oracle SE1 release</DBEngineVersionDescription>
        <CharacterSet>
            <CharacterSetName>AL32UTF8</CharacterSetName>
            <CharacterSetDescription>Unicode 5.0 UTF-8 Universal character set</CharacterSetDescription>
        </CharacterSet> 
      </DBEngineVersion>
      <DBEngineVersion>
        <DBParameterGroupFamily>oracle-se1-11.2</DBParameterGroupFamily>
        <Engine>oracle-se1</Engine>
        <DBEngineDescription>Oracle Database Server SE1</DBEngineDescription>
        <EngineVersion>11.2.0.2.v3</EngineVersion>
        <DBEngineVersionDescription>Oracle SE1 release</DBEngineVersionDescription>
        <CharacterSet>
            <CharacterSetName>AL32UTF8</CharacterSetName>
            <CharacterSetDescription>Unicode 5.0 UTF-8 Universal character set</CharacterSetDescription>
        </CharacterSet> 
      </DBEngineVersion>
    </DBEngineVersions>
  </DescribeDBEngineVersionsResult>
  <ResponseMetadata>
    <RequestId>1162dc55-850f-11e0-90aa-eb648410240d</RequestId>
  </ResponseMetadata>
</DescribeDBEngineVersionsResponse>

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