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Creates a new database from an existing database snapshot in Amazon Lightsail.

You can create a new database from a snapshot in if something goes wrong with your original database, or to change it to a different plan, such as a high availability or standard plan.

The create relational database from snapshot operation supports tag-based access control via request tags and resource tags applied to the resource identified by relationalDatabaseSnapshotName. For more information, see the Amazon Lightsail Developer Guide.

post/#X-Amz-Target=Lightsail_20161128.CreateRelationalDatabaseFromSnapshot

Headers

X-Amz-Target'Lightsail_20161128.CreateRelationalDatabaseFromSnapshot' required

Request body

relationalDatabaseNamestring required
<p>The name to use for your new Lightsail database resource.</p> <p>Constraints:</p> <ul> <li> <p>Must contain from 2 to 255 alphanumeric characters, or hyphens.</p> </li> <li> <p>The first and last character must be a letter or number.</p> </li> </ul>
availabilityZonestring
<p>The Availability Zone in which to create your new database. Use the <code>us-east-2a</code> case-sensitive format.</p> <p>You can get a list of Availability Zones by using the <code>get regions</code> operation. Be sure to add the <code>include relational database Availability Zones</code> parameter to your request.</p>
publiclyAccessibleboolean

Specifies the accessibility options for your new database. A value of <code>true</code> specifies a database that is available to resources outside of your Lightsail account. A value of <code>false</code> specifies a database that is available only to your Lightsail resources in the same region as your database.

relationalDatabaseSnapshotNamestring

The name of the database snapshot from which to create your new database.

relationalDatabaseBundleIdstring
<p>The bundle ID for your new database. A bundle describes the performance specifications for your database.</p> <p>You can get a list of database bundle IDs by using the <code>get relational database bundles</code> operation.</p> <p>When creating a new database from a snapshot, you cannot choose a bundle that is smaller than the bundle of the source database.</p>
sourceRelationalDatabaseNamestring

The name of the source database.

restoreTimestring date-time
<p>The date and time to restore your database from.</p> <p>Constraints:</p> <ul> <li> <p>Must be before the latest restorable time for the database.</p> </li> <li> <p>Cannot be specified if the <code>use latest restorable time</code> parameter is <code>true</code>.</p> </li> <li> <p>Specified in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).</p> </li> <li> <p>Specified in the Unix time format.</p> <p>For example, if you wish to use a restore time of October 1, 2018, at 8 PM UTC, then you input <code>1538424000</code> as the restore time.</p> </li> </ul>
useLatestRestorableTimeboolean
<p>Specifies whether your database is restored from the latest backup time. A value of <code>true</code> restores from the latest backup time. </p> <p>Default: <code>false</code> </p> <p>Constraints: Cannot be specified if the <code>restore time</code> parameter is provided.</p>

Response

Success