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Creates a new option group. You can create up to 20 option groups.

This command doesn't apply to RDS Custom.

get/#Action=CreateOptionGroup

Query parameters

OptionGroupNamestring required
<p>Specifies the name of the option group to be created.</p> <p>Constraints:</p> <ul> <li> <p>Must be 1 to 255 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>myoptiongroup</code> </p>
EngineNamestring required
<p>Specifies the name of the engine that this option group should be associated with.</p> <p>Valid Values:</p> <ul> <li> <p> <code>mariadb</code> </p> </li> <li> <p> <code>mysql</code> </p> </li> <li> <p> <code>oracle-ee</code> </p> </li> <li> <p> <code>oracle-ee-cdb</code> </p> </li> <li> <p> <code>oracle-se2</code> </p> </li> <li> <p> <code>oracle-se2-cdb</code> </p> </li> <li> <p> <code>postgres</code> </p> </li> <li> <p> <code>sqlserver-ee</code> </p> </li> <li> <p> <code>sqlserver-se</code> </p> </li> <li> <p> <code>sqlserver-ex</code> </p> </li> <li> <p> <code>sqlserver-web</code> </p> </li> </ul>
MajorEngineVersionstring required

Specifies the major version of the engine that this option group should be associated with.

OptionGroupDescriptionstring required

The description of the option group.

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}.:/=+\-@]*)$").

Tags to assign to the option group.

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

Response

Success