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Promotes the specified secondary DB cluster to be the primary DB cluster in the global
database cluster to fail over or switch over a global database. Switchover operations
were previously called "managed planned failovers."
Although this operation can be used either to fail over or to switch over a global
database cluster, its intended use is for global database failover. To switch over
a global database cluster, we recommend that you use the SwitchoverGlobalCluster
operation instead.
How you use this operation depends on whether you are failing over or switching over your global database cluster:
Failing over - Specify the AllowDataLoss parameter and don't specify the Switchover
parameter.
Switching over - Specify the Switchover parameter or omit it, but don't specify
the AllowDataLoss parameter.
About failing over and switching over
While failing over and switching over a global database cluster both change the primary DB cluster, you use these operations for different reasons:
Failing over - Use this operation to respond to an unplanned event, such as a Regional disaster in the primary Region. Failing over can result in a loss of write transaction data that wasn't replicated to the chosen secondary before the failover event occurred. However, the recovery process that promotes a DB instance on the chosen seconday DB cluster to be the primary writer DB instance guarantees that the data is in a transactionally consistent state.
For more information about failing over an Amazon Aurora global database, see Performing managed failovers for Aurora global databases in the Amazon Aurora User Guide.
Switching over - Use this operation on a healthy global database cluster for planned events, such as Regional rotation or to fail back to the original primary DB cluster after a failover operation. With this operation, there is no data loss.
For more information about switching over an Amazon Aurora global database, see Performing switchovers for Aurora global databases in the Amazon Aurora User Guide.
For .NET Core this operation is only available in asynchronous form. Please refer to FailoverGlobalClusterAsync.
Namespace: Amazon.RDS
Assembly: AWSSDK.RDS.dll
Version: 3.x.y.z
public virtual FailoverGlobalClusterResponse FailoverGlobalCluster( FailoverGlobalClusterRequest request )
Container for the necessary parameters to execute the FailoverGlobalCluster service method.
| Exception | Condition |
|---|---|
| DBClusterNotFoundException | DBClusterIdentifier doesn't refer to an existing DB cluster. |
| GlobalClusterNotFoundException | The GlobalClusterIdentifier doesn't refer to an existing global database cluster. |
| InvalidDBClusterStateException | The requested operation can't be performed while the cluster is in this state. |
| InvalidGlobalClusterStateException | The global cluster is in an invalid state and can't perform the requested operation. |
.NET Framework:
Supported in: 4.5 and newer, 3.5