Request Parameters Response Elements Errors Examples See Also

DescribeSourceRegions

Returns a list of the source Amazon Web Services Regions where the current Amazon Web Services Region can create a read replica, copy a DB snapshot from, or replicate automated backups from.

Use this operation to determine whether cross-Region features are supported between other Regions and your current Region. This operation supports pagination.

To return information about the Regions that are enabled for your account, or all Regions, use the EC2 operation DescribeRegions. For more information, see DescribeRegions in the Amazon EC2 API Reference.

Request Parameters

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

Filters.Filter.N

This parameter isn't currently supported.

Type: Array of Filter objects

Required: No

Marker

An optional pagination token provided by a previous DescribeSourceRegions 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 you can retrieve the remaining results.

Default: 100

Constraints: Minimum 20, maximum 100.

Type: Integer

Required: No

RegionName

The source Amazon Web Services Region name. For example, us-east-1.

Constraints:

Must specify a valid Amazon Web Services Region name.

Type: String

Required: No

Response Elements

The following elements are returned by the service.

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

SourceRegions.SourceRegion.N

A list of SourceRegion instances that contains each source Amazon Web Services Region that the current Amazon Web Services Region can get a read replica or a DB snapshot from.

Type: Array of SourceRegion objects

Errors

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

Examples

Example

This example illustrates one usage of DescribeSourceRegions.

Sample Request



https://rds.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/
   ?Action=DescribeSourceRegions
   &MaxRecords=10
   &SignatureMethod=HmacSHA256
   &SignatureVersion=4
   &Version=2014-10-31
   &X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256
   &X-Amz-Credential=AKIADQKE4SARGYLE/20140429/us-east-1/rds/aws4_request
   &X-Amz-Date=20140429T175351Z
   &X-Amz-SignedHeaders=content-type;host;user-agent;x-amz-content-sha256;x-amz-date
   &X-Amz-Signature=9164337efa99caf850e874a1cb7ef62f3cea29d0b448b9e0e7c53b288ddffed2

Sample Response



<DescribeSourceRegionsResponse xmlns="http://rds.amazonaws.com/doc/2014-10-31/">
  <DescribeSourceRegionsResult>       
    <SourceRegions>
      <SourceRegion>
        <RegionName>ap-northeast-1</RegionName>
        <EndPoint>https://rds.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com</EndPoint>
        <Status>available</Status>       
      </SourceRegion>
      <SourceRegion>
        <RegionName>ap-southeast-2</RegionName>
        <EndPoint>https://rds.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com</EndPoint>
        <Status>available</Status>       
      </SourceRegion>
    </SourceRegions>
  </DescribeSourceRegionsResult>
  <ResponseMetadata>
    <RequestId>01b2685a-b978-11d3-f272-7cd6cce12cc5</RequestId>
  </ResponseMetadata>
</DescribeSourceRegionsResponse>