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Creates an Aurora global database spread across multiple Amazon Web Services Regions. The global database contains a single primary cluster with read-write capability, and a read-only secondary cluster that receives data from the primary cluster through high-speed replication performed by the Aurora storage subsystem.

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

This action applies only to Aurora DB clusters.

get/#Action=CreateGlobalCluster

Query parameters

GlobalClusterIdentifierstring

The cluster identifier of the new global database cluster. This parameter is stored as a lowercase string.

SourceDBClusterIdentifierstring

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

Enginestring

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

EngineVersionstring

The engine version of the Aurora global database.

DeletionProtectionboolean

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

DatabaseNamestring

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

StorageEncryptedboolean

The storage encryption setting for the new global database cluster.

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

Response

Success