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Creates an Amazon DocumentDB global cluster that can span multiple multiple Amazon Web Services Regions. The global cluster contains one primary cluster with read-write capability, and up-to give read-only secondary clusters. Global clusters uses storage-based fast replication across regions with latencies less than one second, using dedicated infrastructure with no impact to your workload’s performance.

You can create a global cluster that is initially empty, and then add a primary and a secondary to it. Or you can specify an existing cluster during the create operation, and this cluster becomes the primary of the global cluster.

This action only applies to Amazon DocumentDB clusters.

get/#Action=CreateGlobalCluster

Query parameters

GlobalClusterIdentifierstring required

The cluster identifier of the new global cluster.

SourceDBClusterIdentifierstring

The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) to use as the primary cluster of the global cluster. This parameter is optional.

Enginestring

The name of the database engine to be used for this cluster.

EngineVersionstring

The engine version of the global cluster.

DeletionProtectionboolean

The deletion protection setting for the new global cluster. The global cluster can't be deleted when deletion protection is enabled.

DatabaseNamestring

The name for your database of up to 64 alpha-numeric characters. If you do not provide a name, Amazon DocumentDB will not create a database in the global cluster you are creating.

StorageEncryptedboolean

The storage encryption setting for the new global cluster.

Action'CreateGlobalCluster' required
Version'2014-10-31' required

Response

Success