AWS::RDS::DBInstance - Amazon CloudFormation
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AWS::RDS::DBInstance

The AWS::RDS::DBInstance resource creates an Amazon DB instance. The new DB instance can be an RDS DB instance, or it can be a DB instance in an Aurora DB cluster.

For more information about creating an RDS DB instance, see Creating an Amazon RDS DB instance in the Amazon RDS User Guide.

For more information about creating a DB instance in an Aurora DB cluster, see Creating an Amazon Aurora DB cluster in the Amazon Aurora User Guide.

If you import an existing DB instance, and the template configuration doesn't match the actual configuration of the DB instance, Amazon CloudFormation applies the changes in the template during the import operation.

Important

If a DB instance is deleted or replaced during an update, Amazon CloudFormation deletes all automated snapshots. However, it retains manual DB snapshots. During an update that requires replacement, you can apply a stack policy to prevent DB instances from being replaced. For more information, see Prevent Updates to Stack Resources.

Updating DB instances

When properties labeled "Update requires: Replacement" are updated, Amazon CloudFormation first creates a replacement DB instance, then changes references from other dependent resources to point to the replacement DB instance, and finally deletes the old DB instance.

Important

We highly recommend that you take a snapshot of the database before updating the stack. If you don't, you lose the data when Amazon CloudFormation replaces your DB instance. To preserve your data, perform the following procedure:

  1. Deactivate any applications that are using the DB instance so that there's no activity on the DB instance.

  2. Create a snapshot of the DB instance. For more information, see Creating a DB Snapshot.

  3. If you want to restore your instance using a DB snapshot, modify the updated template with your DB instance changes and add the DBSnapshotIdentifier property with the ID of the DB snapshot that you want to use.

    After you restore a DB instance with a DBSnapshotIdentifier property, you can delete the DBSnapshotIdentifier property. When you specify this property for an update, the DB instance is not restored from the DB snapshot again, and the data in the database is not changed. However, if you don't specify the DBSnapshotIdentifier property, an empty DB instance is created, and the original DB instance is deleted. If you specify a property that is different from the previous snapshot restore property, a new DB instance is restored from the specified DBSnapshotIdentifier property, and the original DB instance is deleted.

  4. Update the stack.

For more information about updating other properties of this resource, see ModifyDBInstance. For more information about updating stacks, see Amazon CloudFormation Stacks Updates.

Deleting DB instances

For DB instances that are part of an Aurora DB cluster, you can set a deletion policy for your DB instance to control how Amazon CloudFormation handles the DB instance when the stack is deleted. For Amazon RDS DB instances, you can choose to retain the DB instance, to delete the DB instance, or to create a snapshot of the DB instance. The default Amazon CloudFormation behavior depends on the DBClusterIdentifier property:

  1. For AWS::RDS::DBInstance resources that don't specify the DBClusterIdentifier property, Amazon CloudFormation saves a snapshot of the DB instance.

  2. For AWS::RDS::DBInstance resources that do specify the DBClusterIdentifier property, Amazon CloudFormation deletes the DB instance.

For more information, see DeletionPolicy Attribute.

Syntax

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

JSON

{ "Type" : "AWS::RDS::DBInstance", "Properties" : { "AllocatedStorage" : String, "AllowMajorVersionUpgrade" : Boolean, "AssociatedRoles" : [ DBInstanceRole, ... ], "AutomaticBackupReplicationRegion" : String, "AutoMinorVersionUpgrade" : Boolean, "AvailabilityZone" : String, "BackupRetentionPeriod" : Integer, "CACertificateIdentifier" : String, "CertificateDetails" : CertificateDetails, "CertificateRotationRestart" : Boolean, "CharacterSetName" : String, "CopyTagsToSnapshot" : Boolean, "CustomIAMInstanceProfile" : String, "DBClusterIdentifier" : String, "DBClusterSnapshotIdentifier" : String, "DBInstanceClass" : String, "DBInstanceIdentifier" : String, "DBName" : String, "DBParameterGroupName" : String, "DBSecurityGroups" : [ String, ... ], "DBSnapshotIdentifier" : String, "DBSubnetGroupName" : String, "DBSystemId" : String, "DedicatedLogVolume" : Boolean, "DeleteAutomatedBackups" : Boolean, "DeletionProtection" : Boolean, "Domain" : String, "DomainAuthSecretArn" : String, "DomainDnsIps" : [ String, ... ], "DomainFqdn" : String, "DomainIAMRoleName" : String, "DomainOu" : String, "EnableCloudwatchLogsExports" : [ String, ... ], "EnableIAMDatabaseAuthentication" : Boolean, "EnablePerformanceInsights" : Boolean, "Endpoint" : Endpoint, "Engine" : String, "EngineVersion" : String, "Iops" : Integer, "KmsKeyId" : String, "LicenseModel" : String, "ManageMasterUserPassword" : Boolean, "MasterUsername" : String, "MasterUserPassword" : String, "MasterUserSecret" : MasterUserSecret, "MaxAllocatedStorage" : Integer, "MonitoringInterval" : Integer, "MonitoringRoleArn" : String, "MultiAZ" : Boolean, "NcharCharacterSetName" : String, "NetworkType" : String, "OptionGroupName" : String, "PerformanceInsightsKMSKeyId" : String, "PerformanceInsightsRetentionPeriod" : Integer, "Port" : String, "PreferredBackupWindow" : String, "PreferredMaintenanceWindow" : String, "ProcessorFeatures" : [ ProcessorFeature, ... ], "PromotionTier" : Integer, "PubliclyAccessible" : Boolean, "ReplicaMode" : String, "RestoreTime" : String, "SourceDBClusterIdentifier" : String, "SourceDBInstanceAutomatedBackupsArn" : String, "SourceDBInstanceIdentifier" : String, "SourceDbiResourceId" : String, "SourceRegion" : String, "StorageEncrypted" : Boolean, "StorageThroughput" : Integer, "StorageType" : String, "Tags" : [ Tag, ... ], "Timezone" : String, "UseDefaultProcessorFeatures" : Boolean, "UseLatestRestorableTime" : Boolean, "VPCSecurityGroups" : [ String, ... ] } }

YAML

Type: AWS::RDS::DBInstance Properties: AllocatedStorage: String AllowMajorVersionUpgrade: Boolean AssociatedRoles: - DBInstanceRole AutomaticBackupReplicationRegion: String AutoMinorVersionUpgrade: Boolean AvailabilityZone: String BackupRetentionPeriod: Integer CACertificateIdentifier: String CertificateDetails: CertificateDetails CertificateRotationRestart: Boolean CharacterSetName: String CopyTagsToSnapshot: Boolean CustomIAMInstanceProfile: String DBClusterIdentifier: String DBClusterSnapshotIdentifier: String DBInstanceClass: String DBInstanceIdentifier: String DBName: String DBParameterGroupName: String DBSecurityGroups: - String DBSnapshotIdentifier: String DBSubnetGroupName: String DBSystemId: String DedicatedLogVolume: Boolean DeleteAutomatedBackups: Boolean DeletionProtection: Boolean Domain: String DomainAuthSecretArn: String DomainDnsIps: - String DomainFqdn: String DomainIAMRoleName: String DomainOu: String EnableCloudwatchLogsExports: - String EnableIAMDatabaseAuthentication: Boolean EnablePerformanceInsights: Boolean Endpoint: Endpoint Engine: String EngineVersion: String Iops: Integer KmsKeyId: String LicenseModel: String ManageMasterUserPassword: Boolean MasterUsername: String MasterUserPassword: String MasterUserSecret: MasterUserSecret MaxAllocatedStorage: Integer MonitoringInterval: Integer MonitoringRoleArn: String MultiAZ: Boolean NcharCharacterSetName: String NetworkType: String OptionGroupName: String PerformanceInsightsKMSKeyId: String PerformanceInsightsRetentionPeriod: Integer Port: String PreferredBackupWindow: String PreferredMaintenanceWindow: String ProcessorFeatures: - ProcessorFeature PromotionTier: Integer PubliclyAccessible: Boolean ReplicaMode: String RestoreTime: String SourceDBClusterIdentifier: String SourceDBInstanceAutomatedBackupsArn: String SourceDBInstanceIdentifier: String SourceDbiResourceId: String SourceRegion: String StorageEncrypted: Boolean StorageThroughput: Integer StorageType: String Tags: - Tag Timezone: String UseDefaultProcessorFeatures: Boolean UseLatestRestorableTime: Boolean VPCSecurityGroups: - String

Properties

AllocatedStorage

The amount of storage in gibibytes (GiB) to be initially allocated for the database instance.

Note

If any value is set in the Iops parameter, AllocatedStorage must be at least 100 GiB, which corresponds to the minimum Iops value of 1,000. If you increase the Iops value (in 1,000 IOPS increments), then you must also increase the AllocatedStorage value (in 100-GiB increments).

Amazon Aurora

Not applicable. Aurora cluster volumes automatically grow as the amount of data in your database increases, though you are only charged for the space that you use in an Aurora cluster volume.

Db2

Constraints to the amount of storage for each storage type are the following:

  • General Purpose (SSD) storage (gp3): Must be an integer from 20 to 64000.

  • Provisioned IOPS storage (io1): Must be an integer from 100 to 64000.

MySQL

Constraints to the amount of storage for each storage type are the following:

  • General Purpose (SSD) storage (gp2): Must be an integer from 20 to 65536.

  • Provisioned IOPS storage (io1): Must be an integer from 100 to 65536.

  • Magnetic storage (standard): Must be an integer from 5 to 3072.

MariaDB

Constraints to the amount of storage for each storage type are the following:

  • General Purpose (SSD) storage (gp2): Must be an integer from 20 to 65536.

  • Provisioned IOPS storage (io1): Must be an integer from 100 to 65536.

  • Magnetic storage (standard): Must be an integer from 5 to 3072.

PostgreSQL

Constraints to the amount of storage for each storage type are the following:

  • General Purpose (SSD) storage (gp2): Must be an integer from 20 to 65536.

  • Provisioned IOPS storage (io1): Must be an integer from 100 to 65536.

  • Magnetic storage (standard): Must be an integer from 5 to 3072.

Oracle

Constraints to the amount of storage for each storage type are the following:

  • General Purpose (SSD) storage (gp2): Must be an integer from 20 to 65536.

  • Provisioned IOPS storage (io1): Must be an integer from 100 to 65536.

  • Magnetic storage (standard): Must be an integer from 10 to 3072.

SQL Server

Constraints to the amount of storage for each storage type are the following:

  • General Purpose (SSD) storage (gp2):

    • Enterprise and Standard editions: Must be an integer from 20 to 16384.

    • Web and Express editions: Must be an integer from 20 to 16384.

  • Provisioned IOPS storage (io1):

    • Enterprise and Standard editions: Must be an integer from 20 to 16384.

    • Web and Express editions: Must be an integer from 20 to 16384.

  • Magnetic storage (standard):

    • Enterprise and Standard editions: Must be an integer from 20 to 1024.

    • Web and Express editions: Must be an integer from 20 to 1024.

Required: Conditional

Type: String

Pattern: ^[0-9]*$

Update requires: No interruption

AllowMajorVersionUpgrade

A value that indicates whether major version upgrades are allowed. Changing this parameter doesn't result in an outage and the change is asynchronously applied as soon as possible.

Constraints: Major version upgrades must be allowed when specifying a value for the EngineVersion parameter that is a different major version than the DB instance's current version.

Required: No

Type: Boolean

Update requires: No interruption

AssociatedRoles

The Amazon Identity and Access Management (IAM) roles associated with the DB instance.

Amazon Aurora

Not applicable. The associated roles are managed by the DB cluster.

Required: No

Type: Array of DBInstanceRole

Update requires: No interruption

AutomaticBackupReplicationRegion

The destination region for the backup replication of the DB instance. For more info, see Replicating automated backups to another Amazon Region in the Amazon RDS User Guide.

Required: No

Type: String

Update requires: No interruption

AutoMinorVersionUpgrade

A value that indicates whether minor engine upgrades are applied automatically to the DB instance during the maintenance window. By default, minor engine upgrades are applied automatically.

Required: No

Type: Boolean

Update requires: Some interruptions

AvailabilityZone

The Availability Zone (AZ) where the database will be created. For information on Amazon Web Services Regions and Availability Zones, see Regions and Availability Zones.

For Amazon Aurora, each Aurora DB cluster hosts copies of its storage in three separate Availability Zones. Specify one of these Availability Zones. Aurora automatically chooses an appropriate Availability Zone if you don't specify one.

Default: A random, system-chosen Availability Zone in the endpoint's Amazon Web Services Region.

Constraints:

  • The AvailabilityZone parameter can't be specified if the DB instance is a Multi-AZ deployment.

  • The specified Availability Zone must be in the same Amazon Web Services Region as the current endpoint.

Example: us-east-1d

Required: No

Type: String

Update requires: Some interruptions

BackupRetentionPeriod

The number of days for which automated backups are retained. Setting this parameter to a positive number enables backups. Setting this parameter to 0 disables automated backups.

Amazon Aurora

Not applicable. The retention period for automated backups is managed by the DB cluster.

Default: 1

Constraints:

  • Must be a value from 0 to 35

  • Can't be set to 0 if the DB instance is a source to read replicas

Required: No

Type: Integer

Minimum: 0

Update requires: Some interruptions

CACertificateIdentifier

The identifier of the CA certificate for this DB instance.

For more information, see Using SSL/TLS to encrypt a connection to a DB instance in the Amazon RDS User Guide and Using SSL/TLS to encrypt a connection to a DB cluster in the Amazon Aurora User Guide.

Required: No

Type: String

Update requires: No interruption

CertificateDetails

The details of the DB instance's server certificate.

Required: No

Type: CertificateDetails

Update requires: No interruption

CertificateRotationRestart

Specifies whether the DB instance is restarted when you rotate your SSL/TLS certificate.

By default, the DB instance is restarted when you rotate your SSL/TLS certificate. The certificate is not updated until the DB instance is restarted.

Important

Set this parameter only if you are not using SSL/TLS to connect to the DB instance.

If you are using SSL/TLS to connect to the DB instance, follow the appropriate instructions for your DB engine to rotate your SSL/TLS certificate:

This setting doesn't apply to RDS Custom DB instances.

Required: No

Type: Boolean

Update requires: No interruption

CharacterSetName

For supported engines, indicates that the DB instance should be associated with the specified character set.

Amazon Aurora

Not applicable. The character set is managed by the DB cluster. For more information, see AWS::RDS::DBCluster.

Required: No

Type: String

Update requires: Replacement

CopyTagsToSnapshot

Specifies whether to copy tags from the DB instance to snapshots of the DB instance. By default, tags are not copied.

This setting doesn't apply to Amazon Aurora DB instances. Copying tags to snapshots is managed by the DB cluster. Setting this value for an Aurora DB instance has no effect on the DB cluster setting.

Required: No

Type: Boolean

Update requires: No interruption

CustomIAMInstanceProfile

The instance profile associated with the underlying Amazon EC2 instance of an RDS Custom DB instance.

This setting is required for RDS Custom.

Constraints:

  • The profile must exist in your account.

  • The profile must have an IAM role that Amazon EC2 has permissions to assume.

  • The instance profile name and the associated IAM role name must start with the prefix AWSRDSCustom.

For the list of permissions required for the IAM role, see Configure IAM and your VPC in the Amazon RDS User Guide.

Required: No

Type: String

Update requires: Replacement

DBClusterIdentifier

The identifier of the DB cluster that the instance will belong to.

Required: No

Type: String

Update requires: Replacement

DBClusterSnapshotIdentifier

The identifier for the Multi-AZ DB cluster snapshot to restore from.

For more information on Multi-AZ DB clusters, see Multi-AZ DB cluster deployments in the Amazon RDS User Guide.

Constraints:

  • Must match the identifier of an existing Multi-AZ DB cluster snapshot.

  • Can't be specified when DBSnapshotIdentifier is specified.

  • Must be specified when DBSnapshotIdentifier isn't specified.

  • If you are restoring from a shared manual Multi-AZ DB cluster snapshot, the DBClusterSnapshotIdentifier must be the ARN of the shared snapshot.

  • Can't be the identifier of an Aurora DB cluster snapshot.

Required: No

Type: String

Update requires: Some interruptions

DBInstanceClass

The compute and memory capacity of the DB instance, for example db.m5.large. Not all DB instance classes are available in all Amazon Web Services Regions, or for all database engines. For the full list of DB instance classes, and availability for your engine, see DB instance classes in the Amazon RDS User Guide or Aurora DB instance classes in the Amazon Aurora User Guide.

Required: No

Type: String

Update requires: Some interruptions

DBInstanceIdentifier

A name for the DB instance. If you specify a name, Amazon CloudFormation converts it to lowercase. If you don't specify a name, Amazon CloudFormation generates a unique physical ID and uses that ID for the DB instance. For more information, see Name Type.

For information about constraints that apply to DB instance identifiers, see Naming constraints in Amazon RDS in the Amazon RDS User Guide.

Important

If you specify a name, you can't perform updates that require replacement of this resource. You can perform updates that require no or some interruption. If you must replace the resource, specify a new name.

Required: No

Type: String

Pattern: ^$|^[a-zA-Z]{1}(?:-?[a-zA-Z0-9]){0,62}$

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 63

Update requires: Replacement

DBName

The meaning of this parameter differs according to the database engine you use.

Important

If you specify the DBSnapshotIdentifier property, this property only applies to RDS for Oracle.

Amazon Aurora

Not applicable. The database name is managed by the DB cluster.

Db2

The name of the database to create when the DB instance is created. If this parameter isn't specified, no database is created in the DB instance.

Constraints:

  • Must contain 1 to 64 letters or numbers.

  • Must begin with a letter. Subsequent characters can be letters, underscores, or digits (0-9).

  • Can't be a word reserved by the specified database engine.

MySQL

The name of the database to create when the DB instance is created. If this parameter is not specified, no database is created in the DB instance.

Constraints:

  • Must contain 1 to 64 letters or numbers.

  • Can't be a word reserved by the specified database engine

MariaDB

The name of the database to create when the DB instance is created. If this parameter is not specified, no database is created in the DB instance.

Constraints:

  • Must contain 1 to 64 letters or numbers.

  • Can't be a word reserved by the specified database engine

PostgreSQL

The name of the database to create when the DB instance is created. If this parameter is not specified, the default postgres database is created in the DB instance.

Constraints:

  • Must begin with a letter. Subsequent characters can be letters, underscores, or digits (0-9).

  • Must contain 1 to 63 characters.

  • Can't be a word reserved by the specified database engine

Oracle

The Oracle System ID (SID) of the created DB instance. If you specify null, the default value ORCL is used. You can't specify the string NULL, or any other reserved word, for DBName.

Default: ORCL

Constraints:

  • Can't be longer than 8 characters

SQL Server

Not applicable. Must be null.

Required: No

Type: String

Update requires: Replacement

DBParameterGroupName

The name of an existing DB parameter group or a reference to an AWS::RDS::DBParameterGroup resource created in the template.

To list all of the available DB parameter group names, use the following command:

aws rds describe-db-parameter-groups --query "DBParameterGroups[].DBParameterGroupName" --output text

Note

If any of the data members of the referenced parameter group are changed during an update, the DB instance might need to be restarted, which causes some interruption. If the parameter group contains static parameters, whether they were changed or not, an update triggers a reboot.

If you don't specify a value for DBParameterGroupName property, the default DB parameter group for the specified engine and engine version is used.

Required: No

Type: String

Update requires: Some interruptions

DBSecurityGroups

A list of the DB security groups to assign to the DB instance. The list can include both the name of existing DB security groups or references to AWS::RDS::DBSecurityGroup resources created in the template.

If you set DBSecurityGroups, you must not set VPCSecurityGroups, and vice versa. Also, note that the DBSecurityGroups property exists only for backwards compatibility with older regions and is no longer recommended for providing security information to an RDS DB instance. Instead, use VPCSecurityGroups.

Important

If you specify this property, Amazon CloudFormation sends only the following properties (if specified) to Amazon RDS during create operations:

  • AllocatedStorage

  • AutoMinorVersionUpgrade

  • AvailabilityZone

  • BackupRetentionPeriod

  • CharacterSetName

  • DBInstanceClass

  • DBName

  • DBParameterGroupName

  • DBSecurityGroups

  • DBSubnetGroupName

  • Engine

  • EngineVersion

  • Iops

  • LicenseModel

  • MasterUsername

  • MasterUserPassword

  • MultiAZ

  • OptionGroupName

  • PreferredBackupWindow

  • PreferredMaintenanceWindow

All other properties are ignored. Specify a virtual private cloud (VPC) security group if you want to submit other properties, such as StorageType, StorageEncrypted, or KmsKeyId. If you're already using the DBSecurityGroups property, you can't use these other properties by updating your DB instance to use a VPC security group. You must recreate the DB instance.

Required: No

Type: Array of String

Update requires: No interruption

DBSnapshotIdentifier

The name or Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the DB snapshot that's used to restore the DB instance. If you're restoring from a shared manual DB snapshot, you must specify the ARN of the snapshot.

By specifying this property, you can create a DB instance from the specified DB snapshot. If the DBSnapshotIdentifier property is an empty string or the AWS::RDS::DBInstance declaration has no DBSnapshotIdentifier property, Amazon CloudFormation creates a new database. If the property contains a value (other than an empty string), Amazon CloudFormation creates a database from the specified snapshot. If a snapshot with the specified name doesn't exist, Amazon CloudFormation can't create the database and it rolls back the stack.

Some DB instance properties aren't valid when you restore from a snapshot, such as the MasterUsername and MasterUserPassword properties. For information about the properties that you can specify, see the RestoreDBInstanceFromDBSnapshot action in the Amazon RDS API Reference.

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

If you specify the DBSnapshotIdentifier property to restore a DB instance (as opposed to specifying it for DB instance updates), then don't specify the following properties:

  • CharacterSetName

  • DBClusterIdentifier

  • DBName

  • DeleteAutomatedBackups

  • EnablePerformanceInsights

  • KmsKeyId

  • MasterUsername

  • MasterUserPassword

  • PerformanceInsightsKMSKeyId

  • PerformanceInsightsRetentionPeriod

  • PromotionTier

  • SourceDBInstanceIdentifier

  • SourceRegion

  • StorageEncrypted (for an encrypted snapshot)

  • Timezone

Amazon Aurora

Not applicable. Snapshot restore is managed by the DB cluster.

Required: No

Type: String

Update requires: Some interruptions

DBSubnetGroupName

A DB subnet group to associate with the DB instance. If you update this value, the new subnet group must be a subnet group in a new VPC.

If there's no DB subnet group, then the DB instance isn't a VPC DB instance.

For more information about using Amazon RDS in a VPC, see Using Amazon RDS with Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) in the Amazon RDS User Guide.

Amazon Aurora

Not applicable. The DB subnet group is managed by the DB cluster. If specified, the setting must match the DB cluster setting.

Required: No

Type: String

Update requires: Replacement

DBSystemId

The Oracle system identifier (SID), which is the name of the Oracle database instance that manages your database files. In this context, the term "Oracle database instance" refers exclusively to the system global area (SGA) and Oracle background processes. If you don't specify a SID, the value defaults to RDSCDB. The Oracle SID is also the name of your CDB.

Required: No

Type: String

Update requires: No interruption

DedicatedLogVolume

Indicates whether the DB instance has a dedicated log volume (DLV) enabled.

Required: No

Type: Boolean

Update requires: No interruption

DeleteAutomatedBackups

A value that indicates whether to remove automated backups immediately after the DB instance is deleted. This parameter isn't case-sensitive. The default is to remove automated backups immediately after the DB instance is deleted.

Amazon Aurora

Not applicable. When you delete a DB cluster, all automated backups for that DB cluster are deleted and can't be recovered. Manual DB cluster snapshots of the DB cluster are not deleted.

Required: No

Type: Boolean

Update requires: No interruption

DeletionProtection

A value that indicates whether the DB instance has deletion protection enabled. The database can't be deleted when deletion protection is enabled. By default, deletion protection is disabled. For more information, see Deleting a DB Instance.

Amazon Aurora

Not applicable. You can enable or disable deletion protection for the DB cluster. For more information, see CreateDBCluster. DB instances in a DB cluster can be deleted even when deletion protection is enabled for the DB cluster.

Required: No

Type: Boolean

Update requires: No interruption

Domain

The Active Directory directory ID to create the DB instance in. Currently, only Db2, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, and PostgreSQL DB instances can be created in an Active Directory Domain.

For more information, see Kerberos Authentication in the Amazon RDS User Guide.

Required: No

Type: String

Update requires: No interruption

DomainAuthSecretArn

The ARN for the Secrets Manager secret with the credentials for the user joining the domain.

Example: arn:aws:secretsmanager:region:account-number:secret:myselfmanagedADtestsecret-123456

Required: No

Type: String

Update requires: No interruption

DomainDnsIps

The IPv4 DNS IP addresses of your primary and secondary Active Directory domain controllers.

Constraints:

  • Two IP addresses must be provided. If there isn't a secondary domain controller, use the IP address of the primary domain controller for both entries in the list.

Example: 123.124.125.126,234.235.236.237

Required: No

Type: Array of String

Update requires: No interruption

DomainFqdn

The fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of an Active Directory domain.

Constraints:

  • Can't be longer than 64 characters.

Example: mymanagedADtest.mymanagedAD.mydomain

Required: No

Type: String

Update requires: No interruption

DomainIAMRoleName

The name of the IAM role to use when making API calls to the Directory Service.

This setting doesn't apply to the following DB instances:

  • Amazon Aurora (The domain is managed by the DB cluster.)

  • RDS Custom

Required: No

Type: String

Update requires: No interruption

DomainOu

The Active Directory organizational unit for your DB instance to join.

Constraints:

  • Must be in the distinguished name format.

  • Can't be longer than 64 characters.

Example: OU=mymanagedADtestOU,DC=mymanagedADtest,DC=mymanagedAD,DC=mydomain

Required: No

Type: String

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 Relational Database Service User Guide.

Amazon Aurora

Not applicable. CloudWatch Logs exports are managed by the DB cluster.

Db2

Valid values: diag.log, notify.log

MariaDB

Valid values: audit, error, general, slowquery

Microsoft SQL Server

Valid values: agent, error

MySQL

Valid values: audit, error, general, slowquery

Oracle

Valid values: alert, audit, listener, trace, oemagent

PostgreSQL

Valid values: postgresql, upgrade

Required: No

Type: Array of String

Update requires: No interruption

EnableIAMDatabaseAuthentication

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

This property is supported for RDS for MariaDB, RDS for MySQL, and RDS for PostgreSQL. For more information, see IAM Database Authentication for MariaDB, MySQL, and PostgreSQL in the Amazon RDS User Guide.

Amazon Aurora

Not applicable. Mapping Amazon IAM accounts to database accounts is managed by the DB cluster.

Required: No

Type: Boolean

Update requires: No interruption

EnablePerformanceInsights

Specifies whether to enable Performance Insights for the DB instance. For more information, see Using Amazon Performance Insights in the Amazon RDS User Guide.

This setting doesn't apply to RDS Custom DB instances.

Required: No

Type: Boolean

Update requires: No interruption

Endpoint

The connection endpoint for the DB instance.

Note

The endpoint might not be shown for instances with the status of creating.

Required: No

Type: Endpoint

Update requires: No interruption

Engine

The name of the database engine to use for this DB instance. Not every database engine is available in every Amazon Region.

This property is required when creating a DB instance.

Note

You can change the architecture of an Oracle database from the non-container database (CDB) architecture to the CDB architecture by updating the Engine value in your templates from oracle-ee or oracle-ee-cdb to oracle-se2-cdb. Converting to the CDB architecture requires an interruption.

Valid Values:

  • aurora-mysql (for Aurora MySQL DB instances)

  • aurora-postgresql (for Aurora PostgreSQL DB instances)

  • custom-oracle-ee (for RDS Custom for Oracle DB instances)

  • custom-oracle-ee-cdb (for RDS Custom for Oracle DB instances)

  • custom-sqlserver-ee (for RDS Custom for SQL Server DB instances)

  • custom-sqlserver-se (for RDS Custom for SQL Server DB instances)

  • custom-sqlserver-web (for RDS Custom for SQL Server DB instances)

  • db2-ae

  • db2-se

  • mariadb

  • mysql

  • oracle-ee

  • oracle-ee-cdb

  • oracle-se2

  • oracle-se2-cdb

  • postgres

  • sqlserver-ee

  • sqlserver-se

  • sqlserver-ex

  • sqlserver-web

Required: Conditional

Type: String

Update requires: Some interruptions

EngineVersion

The version number of the database engine to use.

For a list of valid engine versions, use the DescribeDBEngineVersions action.

The following are the database engines and links to information about the major and minor versions that are available with Amazon RDS. Not every database engine is available for every Amazon Region.

Amazon Aurora

Not applicable. The version number of the database engine to be used by the DB instance is managed by the DB cluster.

Db2

See Amazon RDS for Db2 in the Amazon RDS User Guide.

MariaDB

See MariaDB on Amazon RDS Versions in the Amazon RDS User Guide.

Microsoft SQL Server

See Microsoft SQL Server Versions on Amazon RDS in the Amazon RDS User Guide.

MySQL

See MySQL on Amazon RDS Versions in the Amazon RDS User Guide.

Oracle

See Oracle Database Engine Release Notes in the Amazon RDS User Guide.

PostgreSQL

See Supported PostgreSQL Database Versions in the Amazon RDS User Guide.

Required: No

Type: String

Update requires: Some interruptions

Iops

The number of I/O operations per second (IOPS) that the database provisions. The value must be equal to or greater than 1000.

If you specify this property, you must follow the range of allowed ratios of your requested IOPS rate to the amount of storage that you allocate (IOPS to allocated storage). For example, you can provision an Oracle database instance with 1000 IOPS and 200 GiB of storage (a ratio of 5:1), or specify 2000 IOPS with 200 GiB of storage (a ratio of 10:1). For more information, see Amazon RDS Provisioned IOPS Storage to Improve Performance in the Amazon RDS User Guide.

Note

If you specify io1 for the StorageType property, then you must also specify the Iops property.

Constraints:

  • For RDS for Db2, MariaDB, MySQL, Oracle, and PostgreSQL - Must be a multiple between .5 and 50 of the storage amount for the DB instance.

  • For RDS for SQL Server - Must be a multiple between 1 and 50 of the storage amount for the DB instance.

Required: No

Type: Integer

Update requires: No interruption

KmsKeyId

The ARN of the Amazon KMS key that's used to encrypt the DB instance, 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, Amazon CloudFormation uses the default KMS key. If you specify this property, you must set the StorageEncrypted property to true.

If you specify the SourceDBInstanceIdentifier property, the value is inherited from the source DB instance if the read replica is created in the same region.

If you create an encrypted read replica in a different Amazon Region, then you must specify a KMS key for the destination Amazon Region. KMS encryption keys are specific to the region that they're created in, and you can't use encryption keys from one region in another region.

If you specify the SnapshotIdentifier property, the StorageEncrypted property value is inherited from the snapshot, and if the DB instance is encrypted, the specified KmsKeyId property is used.

If you specify DBSecurityGroups, Amazon CloudFormation ignores this property. To specify both a security group and this property, you must use a VPC security group. For more information about Amazon RDS and VPC, see Using Amazon RDS with Amazon VPC in the Amazon RDS User Guide.

Amazon Aurora

Not applicable. The KMS key identifier is managed by the DB cluster.

Required: No

Type: String

Update requires: Replacement

LicenseModel

License model information for this DB instance.

Valid Values:

  • Aurora MySQL - general-public-license

  • Aurora PostgreSQL - postgresql-license

  • RDS for Db2 - bring-your-own-license. For more information about RDS for Db2 licensing, see https://docs.amazonaws.cn/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/db2-licensing.html in the Amazon RDS User Guide.

  • RDS for MariaDB - general-public-license

  • RDS for Microsoft SQL Server - license-included

  • RDS for MySQL - general-public-license

  • RDS for Oracle - bring-your-own-license or license-included

  • RDS for PostgreSQL - postgresql-license

Note

If you've specified DBSecurityGroups and then you update the license model, Amazon CloudFormation replaces the underlying DB instance. This will incur some interruptions to database availability.

Required: No

Type: String

Update requires: No interruption

ManageMasterUserPassword

Specifies whether to manage the master user password with Amazon Secrets Manager.

For more information, see Password management with Amazon Secrets Manager in the Amazon RDS User Guide.

Constraints:

  • Can't manage the master user password with Amazon Secrets Manager if MasterUserPassword is specified.

Required: No

Type: Boolean

Update requires: No interruption

MasterUsername

The master user name 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.

When migrating a self-managed Db2 database, we recommend that you use the same master username as your self-managed Db2 instance name.

Amazon Aurora

Not applicable. The name for the master user is managed by the DB cluster.

RDS for Db2

Constraints:

  • Must be 1 to 16 letters or numbers.

  • First character must be a letter.

  • Can't be a reserved word for the chosen database engine.

RDS for MariaDB

Constraints:

  • Must be 1 to 16 letters or numbers.

  • Can't be a reserved word for the chosen database engine.

RDS for Microsoft SQL Server

Constraints:

  • Must be 1 to 128 letters or numbers.

  • First character must be a letter.

  • Can't be a reserved word for the chosen database engine.

RDS for MySQL

Constraints:

  • Must be 1 to 16 letters or numbers.

  • First character must be a letter.

  • Can't be a reserved word for the chosen database engine.

RDS for Oracle

Constraints:

  • Must be 1 to 30 letters or numbers.

  • First character must be a letter.

  • Can't be a reserved word for the chosen database engine.

RDS for PostgreSQL

Constraints:

  • Must be 1 to 63 letters or numbers.

  • First character must be a letter.

  • Can't be a reserved word for the chosen database engine.

Required: Conditional

Type: String

Pattern: ^[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9_]{0,127}$

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 128

Update requires: Replacement

MasterUserPassword

The password for the master user. The password can include any printable ASCII character except "/", """, or "@".

Amazon Aurora

Not applicable. The password for the master user is managed by the DB cluster.

RDS for Db2

Must contain from 8 to 255 characters.

RDS for MariaDB

Constraints: Must contain from 8 to 41 characters.

RDS for Microsoft SQL Server

Constraints: Must contain from 8 to 128 characters.

RDS for MySQL

Constraints: Must contain from 8 to 41 characters.

RDS for Oracle

Constraints: Must contain from 8 to 30 characters.

RDS for PostgreSQL

Constraints: Must contain from 8 to 128 characters.

Required: Conditional

Type: String

Update requires: No interruption

MasterUserSecret

The secret managed by RDS in Amazon Secrets Manager for the master user password.

For more information, see Password management with Amazon Secrets Manager in the Amazon RDS User Guide.

Required: No

Type: MasterUserSecret

Update requires: No interruption

MaxAllocatedStorage

The upper limit in gibibytes (GiB) to which Amazon RDS can automatically scale the storage of the DB instance.

For more information about this setting, including limitations that apply to it, see Managing capacity automatically with Amazon RDS storage autoscaling in the Amazon RDS User Guide.

This setting doesn't apply to the following DB instances:

  • Amazon Aurora (Storage is managed by the DB cluster.)

  • RDS Custom

Required: No

Type: Integer

Update requires: No interruption

MonitoringInterval

The interval, in seconds, between points when Enhanced Monitoring metrics are collected for the DB instance. To disable collection of Enhanced Monitoring metrics, specify 0. The default is 0.

If MonitoringRoleArn is specified, then you must set MonitoringInterval to a value other than 0.

This setting doesn't apply to RDS Custom.

Valid Values: 0, 1, 5, 10, 15, 30, 60

Required: No

Type: Integer

Update requires: No interruption

MonitoringRoleArn

The ARN for the IAM role that permits RDS to send enhanced monitoring metrics to Amazon CloudWatch Logs. For example, arn:aws:iam:123456789012:role/emaccess. For information on creating a monitoring role, see Setting Up and Enabling Enhanced Monitoring in the Amazon RDS User Guide.

If MonitoringInterval is set to a value other than 0, then you must supply a MonitoringRoleArn value.

This setting doesn't apply to RDS Custom DB instances.

Required: No

Type: String

Update requires: No interruption

MultiAZ

Specifies whether the database instance is a Multi-AZ DB instance deployment. You can't set the AvailabilityZone parameter if the MultiAZ parameter is set to true.

For more information, see Multi-AZ deployments for high availability in the Amazon RDS User Guide.

Amazon Aurora

Not applicable. Amazon Aurora storage is replicated across all of the Availability Zones and doesn't require the MultiAZ option to be set.

Required: No

Type: Boolean

Update requires: Some interruptions

NcharCharacterSetName

The name of the NCHAR character set for the Oracle DB instance.

This setting doesn't apply to RDS Custom DB instances.

Required: No

Type: String

Update requires: Replacement

NetworkType

The network type of the DB instance.

Valid values:

  • IPV4

  • DUAL

The network type is determined by the DBSubnetGroup specified for the DB instance. A DBSubnetGroup can support only the IPv4 protocol or the IPv4 and IPv6 protocols (DUAL).

For more information, see Working with a DB instance in a VPC in the Amazon RDS User Guide.

Required: No

Type: String

Update requires: No interruption

OptionGroupName

Indicates that the DB instance should be associated with the specified option group.

Permanent options, such as the TDE option for Oracle Advanced Security TDE, can't be removed from an option group. Also, that option group can't be removed from a DB instance once it is associated with a DB instance.

Required: No

Type: String

Update requires: No interruption

PerformanceInsightsKMSKeyId

The Amazon KMS key identifier for encryption of Performance Insights data.

The KMS key identifier is the key ARN, key ID, alias ARN, or alias name for the KMS key.

If you do not specify a value for PerformanceInsightsKMSKeyId, then Amazon RDS uses your default KMS key. There is a default KMS key for your Amazon account. Your Amazon account has a different default KMS key for each Amazon Region.

For information about enabling Performance Insights, see EnablePerformanceInsights.

Required: No

Type: String

Update requires: Replacement

PerformanceInsightsRetentionPeriod

The number of days to retain Performance Insights data.

This setting doesn't apply to RDS Custom DB instances.

Valid Values:

  • 7

  • month * 31, where month is a number of months from 1-23. Examples: 93 (3 months * 31), 341 (11 months * 31), 589 (19 months * 31)

  • 731

Default: 7 days

If you specify a retention period that isn't valid, such as 94, Amazon RDS returns an error.

Required: No

Type: Integer

Update requires: No interruption

Port

The port number on which the database accepts connections.

Amazon Aurora

Not applicable. The port number is managed by the DB cluster.

Db2

Default value: 50000

Required: No

Type: String

Pattern: ^\d*$

Update requires: Replacement

PreferredBackupWindow

The daily time range during which automated backups are created if automated backups are enabled, using the BackupRetentionPeriod parameter. For more information, see Backup Window in the Amazon RDS 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.

Amazon Aurora

Not applicable. The daily time range for creating automated backups is managed by the DB cluster.

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 Amazon Region, occurring on a random day of the week. To see the time blocks available, see Adjusting the Preferred DB Instance Maintenance Window in the Amazon RDS User Guide.

Note

This property applies when Amazon CloudFormation initially creates the DB instance. If you use Amazon CloudFormation to update the DB instance, those updates are applied immediately.

Constraints: Minimum 30-minute window.

Required: No

Type: String

Update requires: Some interruptions

ProcessorFeatures

The number of CPU cores and the number of threads per core for the DB instance class of the DB instance.

This setting doesn't apply to Amazon Aurora or RDS Custom DB instances.

Required: No

Type: Array of ProcessorFeature

Update requires: No interruption

PromotionTier

The order of priority in which an Aurora Replica is promoted to the primary instance after a failure of the existing primary instance. For more information, see Fault Tolerance for an Aurora DB Cluster in the Amazon Aurora User Guide.

This setting doesn't apply to RDS Custom DB instances.

Default: 1

Valid Values: 0 - 15

Required: No

Type: Integer

Minimum: 0

Update requires: No interruption

PubliclyAccessible

Indicates whether the DB instance is an internet-facing instance. If you specify true, Amazon CloudFormation creates an instance with a publicly resolvable DNS name, which resolves to a public IP address. If you specify false, Amazon CloudFormation creates an internal instance with a DNS name that resolves to a private IP address.

The default behavior value depends on your VPC setup and the database subnet group. For more information, see the PubliclyAccessible parameter in the CreateDBInstance in the Amazon RDS API Reference.

Required: No

Type: Boolean

Update requires: No interruption

ReplicaMode

The open mode of an Oracle read replica. For more information, see Working with Oracle Read Replicas for Amazon RDS in the Amazon RDS User Guide.

This setting is only supported in RDS for Oracle.

Default: open-read-only

Valid Values: open-read-only or mounted

Required: No

Type: String

Update requires: No interruption

RestoreTime

The date and time to restore from.

Constraints:

  • Must be a time in Universal Coordinated Time (UTC) format.

  • Must be before the latest restorable time for the DB instance.

  • Can't be specified if the UseLatestRestorableTime parameter is enabled.

Example: 2009-09-07T23:45:00Z

Required: No

Type: String

Update requires: Some interruptions

SourceDBClusterIdentifier

The identifier of the Multi-AZ DB cluster that will act as the source for the read replica. Each DB cluster can have up to 15 read replicas.

Constraints:

  • Must be the identifier of an existing Multi-AZ DB cluster.

  • Can't be specified if the SourceDBInstanceIdentifier parameter is also specified.

  • The specified DB cluster must have automatic backups enabled, that is, its backup retention period must be greater than 0.

  • The source DB cluster must be in the same Amazon Web Services Region as the read replica. Cross-Region replication isn't supported.

Required: No

Type: String

Update requires: Some interruptions

SourceDBInstanceAutomatedBackupsArn

The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the replicated automated backups from which to restore, for example, arn:aws:rds:us-east-1:123456789012:auto-backup:ab-L2IJCEXJP7XQ7HOJ4SIEXAMPLE.

This setting doesn't apply to RDS Custom.

Required: No

Type: String

Update requires: Some interruptions

SourceDBInstanceIdentifier

If you want to create a read replica DB instance, specify the ID of the source DB instance. Each DB instance can have a limited number of read replicas. For more information, see Working with Read Replicas in the Amazon RDS User Guide.

For information about constraints that apply to DB instance identifiers, see Naming constraints in Amazon RDS in the Amazon RDS User Guide.

The SourceDBInstanceIdentifier property determines whether a DB instance is a read replica. If you remove the SourceDBInstanceIdentifier property from your template and then update your stack, Amazon CloudFormation promotes the Read Replica to a standalone DB instance.

Important
  • If you specify a source DB instance that uses VPC security groups, we recommend that you specify the VPCSecurityGroups property. If you don't specify the property, the read replica inherits the value of the VPCSecurityGroups property from the source DB when you create the replica. However, if you update the stack, Amazon CloudFormation reverts the replica's VPCSecurityGroups property to the default value because it's not defined in the stack's template. This change might cause unexpected issues.

  • Read replicas don't support deletion policies. Amazon CloudFormation ignores any deletion policy that's associated with a read replica.

  • If you specify SourceDBInstanceIdentifier, don't specify the DBSnapshotIdentifier property. You can't create a read replica from a snapshot.

  • Don't set the BackupRetentionPeriod, DBName, MasterUsername, MasterUserPassword, and PreferredBackupWindow properties. The database attributes are inherited from the source DB instance, and backups are disabled for read replicas.

  • If the source DB instance is in a different region than the read replica, specify the source region in SourceRegion, and specify an ARN for a valid DB instance in SourceDBInstanceIdentifier. For more information, see Constructing a Amazon RDS Amazon Resource Name (ARN) in the Amazon RDS User Guide.

  • For DB instances in Amazon Aurora clusters, don't specify this property. Amazon RDS automatically assigns writer and reader DB instances.

Required: No

Type: String

Update requires: Some interruptions

SourceDbiResourceId

The resource ID of the source DB instance from which to restore.

Required: No

Type: String

Update requires: Some interruptions

SourceRegion

The ID of the region that contains the source DB instance for the read replica.

Required: No

Type: String

Update requires: Replacement

StorageEncrypted

A value that indicates whether the DB instance is encrypted. By default, it isn't encrypted.

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

If you specify the SourceDBInstanceIdentifier property, don't specify this property. The value is inherited from the source DB instance, and if the DB instance is encrypted, the specified KmsKeyId property is used.

If you specify the DBSnapshotIdentifier and the specified snapshot is encrypted, don't specify this property. The value is inherited from the snapshot, and the specified KmsKeyId property is used.

If you specify the DBSnapshotIdentifier and the specified snapshot isn't encrypted, you can use this property to specify that the restored DB instance is encrypted. Specify the KmsKeyId property for the KMS key to use for encryption. If you don't want the restored DB instance to be encrypted, then don't set this property or set it to false.

Amazon Aurora

Not applicable. The encryption for DB instances is managed by the DB cluster.

Required: No

Type: Boolean

Update requires: Replacement

StorageThroughput

Specifies the storage throughput value for the DB instance. This setting applies only to the gp3 storage type.

This setting doesn't apply to RDS Custom or Amazon Aurora.

Required: No

Type: Integer

Update requires: No interruption

StorageType

The storage type to associate with the DB instance.

If you specify io1, io2, or gp3, you must also include a value for the Iops parameter.

This setting doesn't apply to Amazon Aurora DB instances. Storage is managed by the DB cluster.

Valid Values: gp2 | gp3 | io1 | io2 | standard

Default: io1, if the Iops parameter is specified. Otherwise, gp2.

Required: No

Type: String

Update requires: Some interruptions

Tags

An optional array of key-value pairs to apply to this DB instance.

Required: No

Type: Array of Tag

Update requires: No interruption

Timezone

The time zone of the DB instance. The time zone parameter is currently supported only by Microsoft SQL Server.

Required: No

Type: String

Update requires: Replacement

UseDefaultProcessorFeatures

Specifies whether the DB instance class of the DB instance uses its default processor features.

This setting doesn't apply to RDS Custom DB instances.

Required: No

Type: Boolean

Update requires: No interruption

UseLatestRestorableTime

Specifies whether the DB instance is restored from the latest backup time. By default, the DB instance isn't restored from the latest backup time.

Constraints:

  • Can't be specified if the RestoreTime parameter is provided.

Required: No

Type: Boolean

Update requires: Some interruptions

VPCSecurityGroups

A list of the VPC security group IDs to assign to the DB instance. The list can include both the physical IDs of existing VPC security groups and references to AWS::EC2::SecurityGroup resources created in the template.

If you plan to update the resource, don't specify VPC security groups in a shared VPC.

If you set VPCSecurityGroups, you must not set DBSecurityGroups, and vice versa.

Important

You can migrate a DB instance in your stack from an RDS DB security group to a VPC security group, but keep the following in mind:

  • You can't revert to using an RDS security group after you establish a VPC security group membership.

  • When you migrate your DB instance to VPC security groups, if your stack update rolls back because the DB instance update fails or because an update fails in another Amazon CloudFormation resource, the rollback fails because it can't revert to an RDS security group.

  • To use the properties that are available when you use a VPC security group, you must recreate the DB instance. If you don't, Amazon CloudFormation submits only the property values that are listed in the DBSecurityGroups property.

To avoid this situation, migrate your DB instance to using VPC security groups only when that is the only change in your stack template.

Amazon Aurora

Not applicable. The associated list of EC2 VPC security groups is managed by the DB cluster. If specified, the setting must match the DB cluster setting.

Required: No

Type: Array 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 DB instance name.

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.

CertificateDetails.CAIdentifier

The CA identifier of the CA certificate used for the DB instance's server certificate.

CertificateDetails.ValidTill

The expiration date of the DB instance’s server certificate.

DBInstanceArn

The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) for the DB instance.

DbiResourceId

The Amazon Region-unique, immutable identifier for the DB instance. This identifier is found in Amazon CloudTrail log entries whenever the Amazon KMS key for the DB instance is accessed.

DBSystemId

The Oracle system ID (Oracle SID) for a container database (CDB). The Oracle SID is also the name of the CDB.

This setting is valid for RDS Custom only.

Endpoint.Address

The connection endpoint for the database. For example: mystack-mydb-1apw1j4phylrk.cg034hpkmmjt.us-east-2.rds.amazonaws.com

For Aurora Serverless DB clusters, the connection endpoint only applies to the DB cluster.

Endpoint.HostedZoneId

The ID that Amazon Route 53 assigns when you create a hosted zone.

Endpoint.Port

The port number on which the database accepts connections. For example: 3306

MasterUserSecret.SecretArn

The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the secret.

Examples

Creating a DB instance with Enhanced Monitoring enabled

The following example creates an Amazon RDS MySQL DB instance with Enhanced Monitoring enabled. The IAM role for Enhanced Monitoring specified in MonitoringRoleArn must exist before you run this example. For more information, see Enhanced Monitoring in the Amazon RDS User Guide.

JSON

{ "AWSTemplateFormatVersion": "2010-09-09", "Description": "AWS CloudFormation Sample Template for creating an Amazon RDS DB instance: Sample template showing how to create a DB instance with Enhanced Monitoring enabled. **WARNING** This template creates an RDS DB instance. You will be billed for the AWS resources used if you create a stack from this template.", "Parameters": { "DBInstanceID": { "Default": "mydbinstance", "Description": "My database instance", "Type": "String", "MinLength": "1", "MaxLength": "63", "AllowedPattern": "[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9]*", "ConstraintDescription": "Must begin with a letter and must not end with a hyphen or contain two consecutive hyphens." }, "DBName": { "Default": "mydb", "Description": "My database", "Type": "String", "MinLength": "1", "MaxLength": "64", "AllowedPattern": "[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9]*", "ConstraintDescription": "Must begin with a letter and contain only alphanumeric characters." }, "DBInstanceClass": { "Default": "db.m5.large", "Description": "DB instance class", "Type": "String", "ConstraintDescription": "Must select a valid DB instance type." }, "DBAllocatedStorage": { "Default": "50", "Description": "The size of the database (GiB)", "Type": "Number", "MinValue": "20", "MaxValue": "65536", "ConstraintDescription": "must be between 20 and 65536 GiB." }, "DBUsername": { "NoEcho": "true", "Description": "Username for MySQL database access", "Type": "String", "MinLength": "1", "MaxLength": "16", "AllowedPattern": "[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9]*", "ConstraintDescription": "must begin with a letter and contain only alphanumeric characters." }, "DBPassword": { "NoEcho": "true", "Description": "Password MySQL database access", "Type": "String", "MinLength": "8", "MaxLength": "41", "AllowedPattern": "[a-zA-Z0-9]*", "ConstraintDescription": "must contain only alphanumeric characters." } }, "Resources": { "MyDB": { "Type": "AWS::RDS::DBInstance", "Properties": { "DBInstanceIdentifier": { "Ref": "DBInstanceID" }, "DBName": { "Ref": "DBName" }, "DBInstanceClass": { "Ref": "DBInstanceClass" }, "AllocatedStorage": { "Ref": "DBAllocatedStorage" }, "Engine": "MySQL", "EngineVersion": "8.0.33", "MasterUsername": { "Ref": "DBUsername" }, "MasterUserPassword": { "Ref": "DBPassword" }, "MonitoringInterval": 60, "MonitoringRoleArn": "arn:aws:iam::1233456789012:role/rds-monitoring-role" } } } }

YAML

AWSTemplateFormatVersion: 2010-09-09 Description: >- Description": "AWS CloudFormation Sample Template for creating an Amazon RDS DB instance: Sample template showing how to create a DB instance with Enhanced Monitoring enabled. **WARNING** This template creates an RDS DB instance. You will be billed for the AWS resources used if you create a stack from this template. Parameters: DBInstanceID: Default: mydbinstance Description: My database instance Type: String MinLength: '1' MaxLength: '63' AllowedPattern: '[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9]*' ConstraintDescription: >- Must begin with a letter and must not end with a hyphen or contain two consecutive hyphens. DBName: Default: mydb Description: My database Type: String MinLength: '1' MaxLength: '64' AllowedPattern: '[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9]*' ConstraintDescription: Must begin with a letter and contain only alphanumeric characters. DBInstanceClass: Default: db.m5.large Description: DB instance class Type: String ConstraintDescription: Must select a valid DB instance type. DBAllocatedStorage: Default: '50' Description: The size of the database (GiB) Type: Number MinValue: '20' MaxValue: '65536' ConstraintDescription: must be between 20 and 65536 GiB. DBUsername: NoEcho: 'true' Description: Username for MySQL database access Type: String MinLength: '1' MaxLength: '16' AllowedPattern: '[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9]*' ConstraintDescription: must begin with a letter and contain only alphanumeric characters. DBPassword: NoEcho: 'true' Description: Password MySQL database access Type: String MinLength: '8' MaxLength: '41' AllowedPattern: '[a-zA-Z0-9]*' ConstraintDescription: must contain only alphanumeric characters. Resources: MyDB: Type: 'AWS::RDS::DBInstance' Properties: DBInstanceIdentifier: !Ref DBInstanceID DBName: !Ref DBName DBInstanceClass: !Ref DBInstanceClass AllocatedStorage: !Ref DBAllocatedStorage Engine: MySQL EngineVersion: "8.0.33" MasterUsername: !Ref DBUsername MasterUserPassword: !Ref DBPassword MonitoringInterval: 60 MonitoringRoleArn: 'arn:aws:iam::123456789012:role/rds-monitoring-role'

Creating a cross-region encrypted read replica

The following example creates an encrypted read replica from a cross-region source DB instance.

JSON

{ "AWSTemplateFormatVersion": "2010-09-09", "Description": "RDS Storage Encrypted", "Parameters": { "SourceDBInstanceIdentifier": { "Type": "String" }, "DBInstanceType": { "Type": "String" }, "SourceRegion": { "Type": "String" } }, "Resources": { "MyKey": { "Type": "AWS::KMS::Key", "Properties": { "KeyPolicy": { "Version": "2012-10-17", "Id": "key-default-1", "Statement": [ { "Sid": "Enable IAM User Permissions", "Effect": "Allow", "Principal": { "AWS": { "Fn::Join": [ "", [ "arn:aws:iam::", { "Ref": "AWS::AccountId" }, ":root" ] ] } }, "Action": "kms:*", "Resource": "*" } ] } } }, "MyDBSmall": { "Type": "AWS::RDS::DBInstance", "Properties": { "DBInstanceClass": { "Ref": "DBInstanceType" }, "SourceDBInstanceIdentifier": { "Ref": "SourceDBInstanceIdentifier" }, "SourceRegion": { "Ref": "SourceRegion" }, "KmsKeyId": { "Ref": "MyKey" } } } }, "Outputs": { "InstanceId": { "Description": "InstanceId of the newly created RDS Instance", "Value": { "Ref": "MyDBSmall" } } } }

YAML

--- AWSTemplateFormatVersion: 2010-09-09 Description: RDS Storage Encrypted Parameters: SourceDBInstanceIdentifier: Type: String DBInstanceType: Type: String SourceRegion: Type: String Resources: MyKey: Type: "AWS::KMS::Key" Properties: KeyPolicy: Version: 2012-10-17 Id: key-default-1 Statement: - Sid: Enable IAM User Permissions Effect: Allow Principal: AWS: !Join - "" - - "arn:aws:iam::" - !Ref "AWS::AccountId" - ":root" Action: "kms:*" Resource: "*" MyDBSmall: Type: "AWS::RDS::DBInstance" Properties: DBInstanceClass: !Ref DBInstanceType SourceDBInstanceIdentifier: !Ref SourceDBInstanceIdentifier SourceRegion: !Ref SourceRegion KmsKeyId: !Ref MyKey Outputs: InstanceId: Description: InstanceId of the newly created RDS Instance Value: !Ref MyDBSmall

Setting a Amazon region for the backup replication of a DB instance

The following example defines the destination region for automated backup replication of a DB instance. In this example the DB instance backup will be replicated to ap-northeast-1 region.

JSON

{ "Resources": { "RDSDBInstance": { "Type": "AWS::RDS::DBInstance", "Properties": { "AllocatedStorage": "100", "AutomaticBackupReplicationRegion": "ap-northeast-1", "BackupRetentionPeriod": 1, "DBInstanceClass": "db.t3.micro", "Engine": "postgres", "Iops": 1000, "MasterUserPassword": "masterpassword", "MasterUsername": "masteruser", "StorageType": "IO1" } } } }

YAML

Resources: RDSDBInstance: Type: 'AWS::RDS::DBInstance' Properties: AllocatedStorage: '100' AutomaticBackupReplicationRegion: ap-northeast-1 BackupRetentionPeriod: 1 DBInstanceClass: db.t3.micro Engine: postgres Iops: 1000 MasterUserPassword: masterpassword MasterUsername: masteruser StorageType: IO1

Creating an Amazon RDS Custom DB instance

This example creates an Amazon RDS Custom DB instance. Amazon RDS Custom allows you as a database administrator to access and customize your database environment and operating system. With this access, you can configure settings, install patches, and enable native features to meet the dependent application's requirements. With RDS Custom, you can run your database workload using the Amazon Management Console or Amazon CLI. For more information, see Working with Amazon RDS Custom in the Amazon RDS User Guide.

JSON

{ "AWSTemplateFormatVersion": "2010-09-09", "Parameters": { "AllocatedStorage": { "Type": "String" }, "CustomIAMInstanceProfile": { "Type": "String" }, "DBInstanceIdentifier": { "Type": "String" }, "DBInstanceClass": { "Type": "String" }, "DBName": { "Type": "String" }, "DBSubnetGroupName": { "Type": "String" }, "Engine": { "Type": "String" }, "EngineVersion": { "Type": "String" }, "KMSKeyId": { "Type": "String" }, "LicenseModel": { "Type": "String" }, "MasterUsername": { "Type": "String" }, "MasterUserPassword": { "Type": "String", "NoEcho": true } }, "Resources": { "RDSDBInstance": { "Properties": { "AllocatedStorage": { "Ref": "AllocatedStorage" }, "AutoMinorVersionUpgrade": false, "CustomIAMInstanceProfile": { "Ref": "CustomIAMInstanceProfile" }, "DBInstanceClass": { "Ref": "DBInstanceClass" }, "DBSubnetGroupName": { "Ref": "DBSubnetGroupName" }, "Engine": { "Ref": "Engine" }, "EngineVersion": { "Ref": "EngineVersion" }, "LicenseModel": { "Ref": "LicenseModel" }, "KmsKeyId": { "Ref": "KMSKeyId" }, "MasterUsername": { "Ref": "MasterUsername" }, "MasterUserPassword": { "Ref": "MasterUserPassword" } }, "Type": "AWS::RDS::DBInstance" } } }

YAML

AWSTemplateFormatVersion: 2010-09-09 Parameters: AllocatedStorage: Type: String CustomIAMInstanceProfile: Type: String DBInstanceIdentifier: Type: String DBInstanceClass: Type: String DBName: Type: String DBSubnetGroupName: Type: String Engine: Type: String EngineVersion: Type: String KMSKeyId: Type: String LicenseModel: Type: String MasterUsername: Type: String MasterUserPassword: Type: String NoEcho: true Resources: RDSDBInstance: Properties: AllocatedStorage: !Ref AllocatedStorage AutoMinorVersionUpgrade: false CustomIAMInstanceProfile: !Ref CustomIAMInstanceProfile DBInstanceClass: !Ref DBInstanceClass DBSubnetGroupName: !Ref DBSubnetGroupName Engine: !Ref Engine EngineVersion: !Ref EngineVersion LicenseModel: !Ref LicenseModel KmsKeyId: !Ref KMSKeyId MasterUsername: !Ref MasterUsername MasterUserPassword: !Ref MasterUserPassword Type: 'AWS::RDS::DBInstance'

Creating a Secrets Manager secret for a master password

The following example creates an AWS::RDS::DBInstance resource with a managed master user and password. The secret used to authenticate the DB instance is shown in the Secret stack output. You can remove this output if you don't need to pass the value to another CloudFormation stack.

For more information about managing passwords with Secrets Manager, see Password management with Amazon Secrets Manager in the Amazon RDS User Guide and Password management with Amazon Secrets Manager in the Amazon Aurora User Guide.

JSON

{ "AWSTemplateFormatVersion": "2010-09-09", "Description": "A sample template", "Resources": { "MyInstance": { "Properties": { "MasterUsername": "masteruser", "DBInstanceClass": "db.t3.micro", "Engine": "mysql", "AllocatedStorage": 5, "AutoMinorVersionUpgrade": false, "ManageMasterUserPassword": true, "MasterUserSecret": { "KmsKeyId": { "Ref": "KMSKey" } } }, "Type": "AWS::RDS::DBInstance" }, "KMSKey": { "Type": "AWS::KMS::Key", "Properties": { "Description": "Manual test KMS key", "EnableKeyRotation": true, "KeyPolicy": { "Version": "2012-10-17", "Id": { "Ref": "AWS::StackName" }, "Statement": [ { "Sid": "Allow administration of the key", "Effect": "Allow", "Principal": { "AWS": { "Fn::Sub": "arn:${AWS::Partition}:iam::${AWS::AccountId}:root" } }, "Action": [ "kms:*" ], "Resource": "*" } ] } } } }, "Outputs": { "Secret": { "Value": { "Fn::GetAtt": "MyInstance.MasterUserSecret.SecretArn" } } } }

YAML

AWSTemplateFormatVersion: "2010-09-09" Description: A sample template Resources: MyInstance: Properties: MasterUsername: "masteruser" DBInstanceClass: "db.t3.micro" Engine: "mysql" AllocatedStorage: 5 AutoMinorVersionUpgrade: false ManageMasterUserPassword: true MasterUserSecret: KmsKeyId: !Ref KMSKey Type: "AWS::RDS::DBInstance" KMSKey: Type: 'AWS::KMS::Key' Properties: Description: Manual test KMS key EnableKeyRotation: True KeyPolicy: Version: "2012-10-17" Id: !Ref "AWS::StackName" Statement: - Sid: "Allow administration of the key" Effect: "Allow" Principal: AWS: Fn::Sub: 'arn:${AWS::Partition}:iam::${AWS::AccountId}:root' Action: - "kms:*" Resource: "*" Outputs: Secret: Value: Fn::GetAtt: MyInstance.MasterUserSecret.SecretArn

Creating a DB instance with self-managed Active Directory domain

The following example creates a Amazon CloudFormation stack with the AWS::RDS::DBInstance resource with Active Directory domain.

JSON

{ "Resources": { "RDSDBInstance": { "Type": "AWS::RDS::DBInstance", "Properties": { "AllocatedStorage": { "Ref" : "DBAllocatedStorage" }, "DBInstanceClass": { "Ref" : "DBClass" }, "DBSubnetGroupName": { "Ref" : "MyDBSubnetGroup" }, "Engine": "sqlserver-ee", "LicenseModel": "license-included", "MasterUsername" : { "Ref" : "DBUsername" }, "MasterUserPassword": { "Ref" : "DBPassword" }, "DomainAuthSecretArn": { "Ref" : "DomainSecretArn" }, "DomainDnsIps": [ "10.0.0.1", "10.0.0.2" ], "DomainFqdn": { "Ref" : "MyDomainFqdn" }, "DomainOu": { "Ref" : "MyDomainOu" } }, "UpdateReplacePolicy": "Delete", "DeletionPolicy": "Delete" } } }

YAML

Resources: RDSDBInstance: Type: 'AWS::RDS::DBInstance' Properties: AllocatedStorage: !Ref DBAllocatedStorage DBInstanceClass: !Ref DBClass DBSubnetGroupName: !Ref MyDBSubnetGroup Engine: sqlserver-ee LicenseModel: license-included MasterUsername: !Ref DBUsername MasterUserPassword: !Ref DBPassword DomainAuthSecretArn: !Ref DomainSecretArn DomainDnsIps: - 10.0.0.1 - 10.0.0.2 DomainFqdn: !Ref MyDomainFqdn DomainOu: !Ref MyDomainOu UpdateReplacePolicy: Delete DeletionPolicy: Delete