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AWS::RDS::DBCluster

The AWS::RDS::DBCluster resource creates an Amazon Aurora DB cluster. For more information, see Managing an Amazon Aurora DB Cluster in the Amazon Aurora User Guide.

Note

You can only create this resource in regions where Amazon Aurora is supported.

The default DeletionPolicy for AWS::RDS::DBCluster resources is Snapshot. For more information about how AWS CloudFormation deletes resources, see DeletionPolicy Attribute.

Syntax

To declare this entity in your AWS CloudFormation template, use the following syntax:

JSON


{
  "Type" : "AWS::RDS::DBCluster",
  "Properties" : {
      "AssociatedRoles" : [ DBClusterRole, ... ],
      "AvailabilityZones" : [ String, ... ],
      "BacktrackWindow" : Long,
      "BackupRetentionPeriod" : Integer,
      "DatabaseName" : String,
      "DBClusterIdentifier" : String,
      "DBClusterParameterGroupName" : String,
      "DBSubnetGroupName" : String,
      "DeletionProtection" : Boolean,
      "EnableCloudwatchLogsExports" : [ String, ... ],
      "EnableIAMDatabaseAuthentication" : Boolean,
      "Engine" : String,
      "EngineMode" : String,
      "EngineVersion" : String,
      "KmsKeyId" : String,
      "MasterUsername" : String,
      "MasterUserPassword" : String,
      "Port" : Integer,
      "PreferredBackupWindow" : String,
      "PreferredMaintenanceWindow" : String,
      "ReplicationSourceIdentifier" : String,
      "RestoreType" : String,
      "ScalingConfiguration" : ScalingConfiguration,
      "SnapshotIdentifier" : String,
      "SourceDBClusterIdentifier" : String,
      "SourceRegion" : String,
      "StorageEncrypted" : Boolean,
      "Tags" : [ Tag, ... ],
      "UseLatestRestorableTime" : Boolean,
      "VpcSecurityGroupIds" : [ String, ... ]
    }
}

YAML


Type: AWS::RDS::DBCluster
Properties: 
  AssociatedRoles: 
    - DBClusterRole
  AvailabilityZones: 
    - String
  BacktrackWindow: Long
  BackupRetentionPeriod: Integer
  DatabaseName: String
  DBClusterIdentifier: String
  DBClusterParameterGroupName: String
  DBSubnetGroupName: String
  DeletionProtection: Boolean
  EnableCloudwatchLogsExports: 
    - String
  EnableIAMDatabaseAuthentication: Boolean
  Engine: String
  EngineMode: String
  EngineVersion: String
  KmsKeyId: String
  MasterUsername: String
  MasterUserPassword: String
  Port: Integer
  PreferredBackupWindow: String
  PreferredMaintenanceWindow: String
  ReplicationSourceIdentifier: String
  RestoreType: String
  ScalingConfiguration: 
    ScalingConfiguration
  SnapshotIdentifier: String
  SourceDBClusterIdentifier: String
  SourceRegion: String
  StorageEncrypted: Boolean
  Tags: 
    - Tag
  UseLatestRestorableTime: Boolean
  VpcSecurityGroupIds: 
    - String

Properties

AssociatedRoles

Provides a list of the AWS 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 AWS services on your behalf.

Required: No

Type: List of DBClusterRole

Update requires: No interruption

AvailabilityZones

A list of Availability Zones (AZs) where instances in the DB cluster can be created. For information on AWS Regions and Availability Zones, see Choosing the Regions and Availability Zones in the Amazon Aurora User Guide.

Required: No

Type: List of String

Update requires: Replacement

BacktrackWindow

The target backtrack window, in seconds. To disable backtracking, set this value to 0.

Default: 0

Constraints:

If specified, this value must be set to a number from 0 to 259,200 (72 hours).

Required: No

Type: Long

Update requires: No interruption

BackupRetentionPeriod

The number of days for which automated backups are retained.

Default: 1

Constraints:

Must be a value from 1 to 35

Required: No

Type: Integer

Update requires: No interruption

DatabaseName

The name of your database. If you don't provide a name, then Amazon RDS won't create a database in this DB cluster. For naming constraints, see Naming Constraints in the Amazon RDS User Guide.

Required: No

Type: String

Update requires: Replacement

DBClusterIdentifier

The DB cluster identifier. This parameter is stored as a lowercase string.

Constraints:

Must contain from 1 to 63 letters, numbers, or hyphens.
First character must be a letter.
Can't end with a hyphen or contain two consecutive hyphens.

Example: my-cluster1

Required: No

Type: String

Update requires: Replacement

DBClusterParameterGroupName

The name of the DB cluster parameter group to associate with this DB cluster.

Important

If you apply a parameter group to an existing DB cluster, then its DB instances might need to reboot. This can result in an outage while the DB instances are rebooting.

Note

If this argument is omitted, default.aurora5.6 is used. If default.aurora5.6 is used, specifying aurora-mysql or aurora-postgresql for the Engine property might result in an error.

Required: No

Type: String

Update requires: No interruption

DBSubnetGroupName

A DB subnet group that you want to associate with this DB cluster.

Required: No

Type: String

Update requires: Replacement

DeletionProtection

A value that indicates whether the DB cluster has deletion protection enabled. The database can't be deleted when deletion protection is enabled. By default, deletion protection is disabled.

Required: No

Type: Boolean

Update requires: No interruption

EnableCloudwatchLogsExports

The list of log types that need to be enabled for exporting to CloudWatch Logs. The values in the list depend on the DB engine being used. For more information, see Publishing Database Logs to Amazon CloudWatch Logs in the Amazon Aurora User Guide.

Required: No

Type: List of String

Update requires: No interruption

EnableIAMDatabaseAuthentication

A value that indicates whether to enable mapping of AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) accounts to database accounts. By default, mapping is disabled.

For more information, see IAM Database Authentication in the Amazon Aurora User Guide.

Required: No

Type: Boolean

Update requires: No interruption

Engine

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

Valid Values: aurora (for MySQL 5.6-compatible Aurora), aurora-mysql (for MySQL 5.7-compatible Aurora), and aurora-postgresql

Required: Yes

Type: String

Update requires: Replacement

EngineMode

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

Required: No

Type: String

Update requires: Replacement

EngineVersion

The version number of the database engine to use.

To list all of the available engine versions for aurora (for MySQL 5.6-compatible Aurora), use the following command:

aws rds describe-db-engine-versions --engine aurora --query "DBEngineVersions[].EngineVersion"

To list all of the available engine versions for aurora-mysql (for MySQL 5.7-compatible Aurora), use the following command:

aws rds describe-db-engine-versions --engine aurora-mysql --query "DBEngineVersions[].EngineVersion"

To list all of the available engine versions for aurora-postgresql, use the following command:

aws rds describe-db-engine-versions --engine aurora-postgresql --query "DBEngineVersions[].EngineVersion"

Required: No

Type: String

Update requires: Replacement

KmsKeyId

The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the AWS Key Management Service master key that is used to encrypt the database instances in the DB cluster, such as arn:aws:kms:us-east-1:012345678910:key/abcd1234-a123-456a-a12b-a123b4cd56ef. If you enable the StorageEncrypted property but don't specify this property, the default master key is used. If you specify this property, you must set the StorageEncrypted property to true.

Required: No

Type: String

Update requires: Replacement

MasterUsername

The name of the master user for the DB cluster.

Note

You must specify MasterUsername, unless you specify SnapshotIdentifier. In that case, don't specify MasterUsername.

Required: No

Type: String

Update requires: Replacement

MasterUserPassword

The master password for the DB instance.

Note

If you specify the SourceDBInstanceIdentifier or DBSnapshotIdentifier property, don't specify this property. The value is inherited from the source DB instance or snapshot.

Required: No

Type: String

Update requires: No interruption

Port

The port number on which the instances in the DB cluster accept connections.

Default: 3306 if engine is set as aurora or 5432 if set to aurora-postgresql.

Required: No

Type: Integer

Update requires: No interruption

PreferredBackupWindow

The daily time range during which automated backups are created if automated backups are enabled using the BackupRetentionPeriod parameter.

The default is a 30-minute window selected at random from an 8-hour block of time for each AWS Region. To see the time blocks available, see Adjusting the Preferred DB Cluster Maintenance Window in the Amazon Aurora User Guide.

Constraints:

Must be in the format hh24:mi-hh24:mi.
Must be in Universal Coordinated Time (UTC).
Must not conflict with the preferred maintenance window.
Must be at least 30 minutes.

Required: No

Type: String

Update requires: No interruption

PreferredMaintenanceWindow

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

Format: ddd:hh24:mi-ddd:hh24:mi

The default is a 30-minute window selected at random from an 8-hour block of time for each AWS Region, occurring on a random day of the week. To see the time blocks available, see Adjusting the Preferred DB Cluster Maintenance Window in the Amazon Aurora User Guide.

Valid Days: Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat, Sun.

Constraints: Minimum 30-minute window.

Required: No

Type: String

Update requires: No interruption

ReplicationSourceIdentifier

The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the source DB instance or DB cluster if this DB cluster is created as a Read Replica.

Required: No

Type: String

Update requires: No interruption

RestoreType

The type of restore to be performed. You can specify one of the following values:

full-copy - The new DB cluster is restored as a full copy of the source DB cluster.
copy-on-write - The new DB cluster is restored as a clone of the source DB cluster.

Constraints: You can't specify copy-on-write if the engine version of the source DB cluster is earlier than 1.11.

If you don't specify a RestoreType value, then the new DB cluster is restored as a full copy of the source DB cluster.

Required: No

Type: String

Update requires: Replacement

ScalingConfiguration

The ScalingConfiguration property type specifies the scaling configuration of an Aurora Serverless DB cluster.

Required: No

Type: ScalingConfiguration

Update requires: No interruption

SnapshotIdentifier

The identifier for the DB snapshot or DB cluster snapshot to restore from.

You can use either the name or the Amazon Resource Name (ARN) to specify a DB cluster snapshot. However, you can use only the ARN to specify a DB snapshot.

After you restore a DB cluster with a SnapshotIdentifier property, you must specify the same SnapshotIdentifier property for any future updates to the DB cluster. When you specify this property for an update, the DB cluster is not restored from the snapshot again, and the data in the database is not changed. However, if you don't specify the SnapshotIdentifier property, an empty DB cluster is created, and the original DB cluster is deleted. If you specify a property that is different from the previous snapshot restore property, the DB cluster is restored from the specified SnapshotIdentifier property, and the original DB cluster is deleted.

Constraints:

Must match the identifier of an existing Snapshot.

Required: No

Type: String

Update requires: Replacement

SourceDBClusterIdentifier

The identifier of the source DB cluster from which to restore.

Constraints:

Must match the identifier of an existing DBCluster.

Required: No

Type: String

Update requires: Replacement

SourceRegion

The AWS Region which contains the source DB cluster when replicating a DB cluster. For example, us-east-1.

Required: No

Type: String

Update requires: Replacement

StorageEncrypted

Indicates whether the DB instance is encrypted.

If you specify the DBClusterIdentifier, DBSnapshotIdentifier, or SourceDBInstanceIdentifier property, don't specify this property. The value is inherited from the cluster, snapshot, or source DB instance.

Important

If you specify the KmsKeyId property, then you must enable encryption.

Required: No

Type: Boolean

Update requires: Replacement

Tags

Tags to assign to the DB cluster.

Required: No

Type: List of Tag

Update requires: No interruption

UseLatestRestorableTime

A value that indicates whether to restore the DB cluster to the latest restorable backup time. By default, the DB cluster is not restored to the latest restorable backup time.

Constraints: Can't be specified if RestoreToTime parameter is provided.

Required: No

Type: Boolean

Update requires: Replacement

VpcSecurityGroupIds

A list of EC2 VPC security groups to associate with this DB cluster.

Required: No

Type: List of String

Update requires: No interruption

Return Values

Ref

When you pass the logical ID of this resource to the intrinsic Ref function, Ref returns the name of the DB cluster.

For more information about using the Ref function, see Ref.

Fn::GetAtt

The Fn::GetAtt intrinsic function returns a value for a specified attribute of this type. The following are the available attributes and sample return values.

For more information about using the Fn::GetAtt intrinsic function, see Fn::GetAtt.

Endpoint.Address: The connection endpoint for the DB cluster. For example: mystack-mydbcluster-1apw1j4phylrk.cg034hpkmmjt.us-east-2.rds.amazonaws.com
Endpoint.Port: The port number that will accept connections on this DB cluster. For example: 3306
ReadEndpoint.Address: The reader endpoint for the DB cluster. For example: mystack-mydbcluster-ro-1apw1j4phylrk.cg034hpkmmjt.us-east-2.rds.amazonaws.com

Examples

The following example creates an Amazon Aurora DB cluster and adds two DB instances to it. Because Amazon RDS automatically assigns a writer and reader DB instances in the cluster, use the cluster endpoint to read and write data, not the individual DB instance endpoints.

JSON


{
    "RDSCluster": {
        "Type": "AWS::RDS::DBCluster",
        "Properties": {
            "MasterUsername": {
                "Ref": "username"
            },
            "MasterUserPassword": {
                "Ref": "password"
            },
            "Engine": "aurora",
            "DBSubnetGroupName": {
                "Ref": "DBSubnetGroup"
            },
            "DBClusterParameterGroupName": {
                "Ref": "RDSDBClusterParameterGroup"
            }
        }
    },
    "RDSDBInstance1": {
        "Type": "AWS::RDS::DBInstance",
        "Properties": {
            "DBSubnetGroupName": {
                "Ref": "DBSubnetGroup"
            },
            "DBParameterGroupName": {
                "Ref": "RDSDBParameterGroup"
            },
            "Engine": "aurora",
            "DBClusterIdentifier": {
                "Ref": "RDSCluster"
            },
            "PubliclyAccessible": "true",
            "AvailabilityZone": {
                "Fn::GetAtt": [
                    "Subnet1",
                    "AvailabilityZone"
                ]
            },
            "DBInstanceClass": "db.r3.xlarge"
        }
    },
    "RDSDBInstance2": {
        "Type": "AWS::RDS::DBInstance",
        "Properties": {
            "DBSubnetGroupName": {
                "Ref": "DBSubnetGroup"
            },
            "DBParameterGroupName": {
                "Ref": "RDSDBParameterGroup"
            },
            "Engine": "aurora",
            "DBClusterIdentifier": {
                "Ref": "RDSCluster"
            },
            "PubliclyAccessible": "true",
            "AvailabilityZone": {
                "Fn::GetAtt": [
                    "Subnet2",
                    "AvailabilityZone"
                ]
            },
            "DBInstanceClass": "db.r3.xlarge"
        }
    },
    "RDSDBClusterParameterGroup": {
        "Type": "AWS::RDS::DBClusterParameterGroup",
        "Properties": {
            "Description": "CloudFormation Sample Aurora Cluster Parameter Group",
            "Family": "aurora5.6",
            "Parameters": {
                "time_zone": "US/Eastern"
            }
        }
    },
    "RDSDBParameterGroup": {
        "Type": "AWS::RDS::DBParameterGroup",
        "Properties": {
            "Description": "CloudFormation Sample Aurora Parameter Group",
            "Family": "aurora5.6",
            "Parameters": {
                "sql_mode": "IGNORE_SPACE"
            }
        }
    }
}

YAML


--- 
RDSCluster: 
  Properties: 
    DBClusterParameterGroupName: 
      Ref: RDSDBClusterParameterGroup
    DBSubnetGroupName: 
      Ref: DBSubnetGroup
    Engine: aurora
    MasterUserPassword: 
      Ref: password
    MasterUsername: 
      Ref: username
  Type: "AWS::RDS::DBCluster"
RDSDBClusterParameterGroup: 
  Properties: 
    Description: "CloudFormation Sample Aurora Cluster Parameter Group"
    Family: aurora5.6
    Parameters: 
      time_zone: US/Eastern
  Type: "AWS::RDS::DBClusterParameterGroup"
RDSDBInstance1: 
  Properties: 
    AvailabilityZone: 
      ? "Fn::GetAtt"
      : 
        - Subnet1
        - AvailabilityZone
    DBClusterIdentifier: 
      Ref: RDSCluster
    DBInstanceClass: db.r3.xlarge
    DBParameterGroupName: 
      Ref: RDSDBParameterGroup
    DBSubnetGroupName: 
      Ref: DBSubnetGroup
    Engine: aurora
    PubliclyAccessible: "true"
  Type: "AWS::RDS::DBInstance"
RDSDBInstance2: 
  Properties: 
    AvailabilityZone: 
      ? "Fn::GetAtt"
      : 
        - Subnet2
        - AvailabilityZone
    DBClusterIdentifier: 
      Ref: RDSCluster
    DBInstanceClass: db.r3.xlarge
    DBParameterGroupName: 
      Ref: RDSDBParameterGroup
    DBSubnetGroupName: 
      Ref: DBSubnetGroup
    Engine: aurora
    PubliclyAccessible: "true"
  Type: "AWS::RDS::DBInstance"
RDSDBParameterGroup: 
  Properties: 
    Description: "CloudFormation Sample Aurora Parameter Group"
    Family: aurora5.6
    Parameters: 
      sql_mode: IGNORE_SPACE
  Type: "AWS::RDS::DBParameterGroup"

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