{ "id": "3103fa6d-a106-4e7e-a28b-2023303adc53", "created_at": "2026-04-06T00:20:02.682906Z", "updated_at": "2026-04-10T03:20:41.636591Z", "deleted_at": null, "sha1_hash": "b5e94f453520b4f2688aea9bebd6d18c69b1b13c", "title": "DescribeDBInstances - Amazon Relational Database Service", "llm_title": "", "authors": "", "file_creation_date": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "file_modification_date": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "file_size": 87805, "plain_text": "DescribeDBInstances - Amazon Relational Database Service\r\nArchived: 2026-04-05 19:49:08 UTC\r\nDescribes provisioned RDS instances. This API supports pagination.\r\nNote\r\nThis operation can also return information for Amazon Neptune DB instances and Amazon DocumentDB\r\ninstances.\r\nRequest Parameters\r\nFor information about the parameters that are common to all actions, see Common Parameters.\r\nDBInstanceIdentifier\r\nThe user-supplied instance identifier or the Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the DB instance. If this\r\nparameter is specified, information from only the specific DB instance is returned. This parameter isn't\r\ncase-sensitive.\r\nConstraints:\r\nIf supplied, must match the identifier of an existing DB instance.\r\nType: String\r\nRequired: No\r\nFilters.Filter.N\r\nA filter that specifies one or more DB instances to describe.\r\nSupported Filters:\r\ndb-cluster-id - Accepts DB cluster identifiers and DB cluster Amazon Resource Names (ARNs).\r\nThe results list only includes information about the DB instances associated with the DB clusters\r\nidentified by these ARNs.\r\ndb-instance-id - Accepts DB instance identifiers and DB instance Amazon Resource Names\r\n(ARNs). The results list only includes information about the DB instances identified by these ARNs.\r\ndbi-resource-id - Accepts DB instance resource identifiers. The results list only includes\r\ninformation about the DB instances identified by these DB instance resource identifiers.\r\nhttps://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/APIReference/API_DescribeDBInstances.html\r\nPage 1 of 9\n\ndomain - Accepts Active Directory directory IDs. The results list only includes information about\r\nthe DB instances associated with these domains.\r\nengine - Accepts engine names. The results list only includes information about the DB instances\r\nfor these engines.\r\nType: Array of Filter objects\r\nRequired: No\r\nMarker\r\nAn optional pagination token provided by a previous DescribeDBInstances request. If this parameter is\r\nspecified, the response includes only records beyond the marker, up to the value specified by MaxRecords .\r\nType: String\r\nRequired: No\r\nMaxRecords\r\nThe maximum number of records to include in the response. If more records exist than the specified\r\nMaxRecords value, a pagination token called a marker is included in the response so that you can retrieve\r\nthe remaining results.\r\nDefault: 100\r\nConstraints: Minimum 20, maximum 100.\r\nType: Integer\r\nRequired: No\r\nResponse Elements\r\nThe following elements are returned by the service.\r\nDBInstances.DBInstance.N\r\nA list of DBInstance instances.\r\nType: Array of DBInstance objects\r\nMarker\r\nAn optional pagination token provided by a previous request. If this parameter is specified, the response\r\nincludes only records beyond the marker, up to the value specified by MaxRecords .\r\nType: String\r\nhttps://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/APIReference/API_DescribeDBInstances.html\r\nPage 2 of 9\n\nErrors\r\nFor information about the errors that are common to all actions, see Common Error Types.\r\nDBInstanceNotFound\r\nDBInstanceIdentifier doesn't refer to an existing DB instance.\r\nHTTP Status Code: 404\r\nExamples\r\nExample\r\nThis example illustrates one usage of DescribeDBInstances.\r\nSample Request\r\nhttps://rds.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/\r\n ?Action=DescribeDBInstances\r\n \u0026MaxRecords=100\r\n \u0026SignatureMethod=HmacSHA256\r\n \u0026SignatureVersion=4\r\n \u0026Version=2014-10-31\r\n \u0026X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256\r\n \u0026X-Amz-Credential=AKIADQKE4SARGYLE/20140420/us-east-1/rds/aws4_request\r\n \u0026X-Amz-Date=20140420T171917Z\r\n 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