DescribeDBEngineVersions

Returns a list of the available engines.

Request Parameters

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

DBParameterGroupFamily

The name of a specific parameter group family to return details for.

Constraints:

  • If provided, must match an existing DBParameterGroupFamily.

Type: String

Required: No

DefaultOnly

Indicates that only the default version of the specified engine or engine and major version combination is returned.

Type: Boolean

Required: No

Engine

The database engine to return.

Type: String

Required: No

EngineVersion

The database engine version to return.

Example: 3.6.0

Type: String

Required: No

Filters.Filter.N

This parameter is not currently supported.

Type: Array of Filter objects

Required: No

ListSupportedCharacterSets

If this parameter is specified and the requested engine supports the CharacterSetName parameter for CreateDBInstance, the response includes a list of supported character sets for each engine version.

Type: Boolean

Required: No

ListSupportedTimezones

If this parameter is specified and the requested engine supports the TimeZone parameter for CreateDBInstance, the response includes a list of supported time zones for each engine version.

Type: Boolean

Required: No

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

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 (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.

DBEngineVersions.DBEngineVersion.N

Detailed information about one or more engine versions.

Type: Array of DBEngineVersion 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.

See Also

For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following: