List databases in a cluster - Amazon Redshift

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List databases in a cluster

To list the databases in a cluster, use the aws redshift-data list-databases AWS CLI command.

The following AWS CLI command runs a SQL statement against a cluster to list databases. This example uses the AWS Secrets Manager authentication method.


aws redshift-data list-databases  

    --secret arn:aws:secretsmanager:us-west-2:123456789012:secret:myuser-secret-hKgPWn 
    --cluster-identifier mycluster-test 
    --database dev

The following is an example of the response.

{
    "Databases": [
        "dev"
    ]
}

The following AWS CLI command runs a SQL statement against a cluster to list databases. This example uses the temporary credentials authentication method.


aws redshift-data list-databases  
    --db-user myuser 
    --cluster-identifier mycluster-test 
    --database dev

The following is an example of the response.

{
    "Databases": [
        "dev"
    ]
}