Request Parameters Response Elements Errors See Also

DescribeDBInstances

Returns information about provisioned instances, and supports pagination.

Note

This operation can also return information for Amazon RDS instances and Amazon DocDB instances.

Request Parameters

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

DBInstanceIdentifier

The user-supplied instance identifier. If this parameter is specified, information from only the specific DB instance is returned. This parameter isn't case-sensitive.

Constraints:

If supplied, must match the identifier of an existing DBInstance.

Type: String

Required: No

Filters.Filter.N

A filter that specifies one or more DB instances to describe.

Supported filters:

db-cluster-id - Accepts DB cluster identifiers and DB cluster Amazon Resource Names (ARNs). The results list will only include information about the DB instances associated with the DB clusters identified by these ARNs.
engine - Accepts an engine name (such as neptune), and restricts the results list to DB instances created by that engine.

For example, to invoke this API from the Amazon CLI and filter so that only Neptune DB instances are returned, you could use the following command:

Type: Array of Filter objects

Required: No

Marker

An optional pagination token provided by a previous DescribeDBInstances 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 records exist than the specified MaxRecords value, a pagination token called 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.

DBInstances.DBInstance.N

A list of DBInstance instances.

Type: Array of DBInstance objects

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

Errors

For information about the errors that are common to all actions, see Common Errors.

DBInstanceNotFound

DBInstanceIdentifier does not refer to an existing DB instance.

HTTP Status Code: 404