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Creates a snapshot of a DB cluster.

For more information on Amazon Aurora, see What is Amazon Aurora? in the Amazon Aurora User Guide.

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

get/#Action=CreateDBClusterSnapshot

Query parameters

DBClusterSnapshotIdentifierstring required
<p>The identifier of the DB cluster snapshot. This parameter is stored as a lowercase string.</p> <p>Constraints:</p> <ul> <li> <p>Must contain from 1 to 63 letters, numbers, or hyphens.</p> </li> <li> <p>First character must be a letter.</p> </li> <li> <p>Can't end with a hyphen or contain two consecutive hyphens.</p> </li> </ul> <p>Example: <code>my-cluster1-snapshot1</code> </p>
DBClusterIdentifierstring required
<p>The identifier of the DB cluster to create a snapshot for. This parameter isn't case-sensitive.</p> <p>Constraints:</p> <ul> <li> <p>Must match the identifier of an existing DBCluster.</p> </li> </ul> <p>Example: <code>my-cluster1</code> </p>
Keystring

A key is the required name of the tag. The string value can be from 1 to 128 Unicode characters in length and can't be prefixed with <code>aws:</code> or <code>rds:</code>. The string can only contain only the set of Unicode letters, digits, white-space, '', '.', ':', '/', '=', '+', '-', '@' (Java regex: "^([\p{L}\p{Z}\p{N}.:/=+\-@]*)$").

Valuestring

A value is the optional value of the tag. The string value can be from 1 to 256 Unicode characters in length and can't be prefixed with <code>aws:</code> or <code>rds:</code>. The string can only contain only the set of Unicode letters, digits, white-space, '', '.', ':', '/', '=', '+', '-', '@' (Java regex: "^([\p{L}\p{Z}\p{N}.:/=+\-@]*)$").

The tags to be assigned to the DB cluster snapshot.

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

Response

Success