DescribeCacheEngineVersions
Returns a list of the available cache engines and their versions.
Request Parameters
For information about the parameters that are common to all actions, see Common Parameters.
- CacheParameterGroupFamily
-
The name of a specific cache parameter group family to return details for.
Valid values are:
memcached1.4
|memcached1.5
|memcached1.6
|redis2.6
|redis2.8
|redis3.2
|redis4.0
|redis5.0
|redis6.x
|redis6.2
|redis7
|valkey7
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
-
If
true
, specifies that only the default version of the specified engine or engine and major version combination is to be returned.Type: Boolean
Required: No
- Engine
-
The cache engine to return. Valid values:
memcached
|redis
Type: String
Required: No
- EngineVersion
-
The cache engine version to return.
Example:
1.4.14
Type: String
Required: No
- Marker
-
An optional marker returned from a prior request. Use this marker for pagination of results from this operation. 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 records exist than the specified
MaxRecords
value, a marker is included in the response so that the remaining results can be retrieved.Default: 100
Constraints: minimum 20; maximum 100.
Type: Integer
Required: No
Response Elements
The following elements are returned by the service.
- CacheEngineVersions.CacheEngineVersion.N
-
A list of cache engine version details. Each element in the list contains detailed information about one cache engine version.
Type: Array of CacheEngineVersion objects
- Marker
-
Provides an identifier to allow retrieval of paginated results.
Type: String
Errors
For information about the errors that are common to all actions, see Common Errors.
Examples
DescribeCacheEngineVersions
This example illustrates one usage of DescribeCacheEngineVersions.
Sample Request
https://elasticache.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/
?Action=DescribeCacheEngineVersions
&MaxRecords=100
&Version=2015-02-02
&SignatureVersion=4
&SignatureMethod=HmacSHA256
&Timestamp=20150202T192317Z
&X-Amz-Credential=<credential>
Sample Response
<DescribeCacheEngineVersionsResponse xmlns="http://elasticache.amazonaws.com/doc/2015-02-02/">
<DescribeCacheEngineVersionsResult>
<CacheEngineVersions>
<CacheEngineVersion>
<CacheParameterGroupFamily>memcached1.4</CacheParameterGroupFamily>
<Engine>memcached</Engine>
<CacheEngineVersionDescription>memcached version 1.4.14</CacheEngineVersionDescription>
<CacheEngineDescription>memcached</CacheEngineDescription>
<EngineVersion>1.4.14</EngineVersion>
</CacheEngineVersion>
<CacheEngineVersion>
<CacheParameterGroupFamily>memcached1.4</CacheParameterGroupFamily>
<Engine>memcached</Engine>
<CacheEngineVersionDescription>memcached version 1.4.5</CacheEngineVersionDescription>
<CacheEngineDescription>memcached</CacheEngineDescription>
<EngineVersion>1.4.5</EngineVersion>
</CacheEngineVersion>
</CacheEngineVersions>
</DescribeCacheEngineVersionsResult>
<ResponseMetadata>
<RequestId>a6ac9ad2-f8a4-11e1-a4d1-a345e5370093</RequestId>
</ResponseMetadata>
</DescribeCacheEngineVersionsResponse>
See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following: