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Initiates the failover process for an Aurora global database (GlobalCluster).

A failover for an Aurora global database promotes one of secondary read-only DB clusters to be the primary DB cluster and demotes the primary DB cluster to being a secondary (read-only) DB cluster. In other words, the role of the current primary DB cluster and the selected (target) DB cluster are switched. The selected secondary DB cluster assumes full read/write capabilities for the Aurora global database.

For more information about failing over an Amazon Aurora global database, see Managed planned failover for Amazon Aurora global databases in the Amazon Aurora User Guide.

This action applies to GlobalCluster (Aurora global databases) only. Use this action only on healthy Aurora global databases with running Aurora DB clusters and no Region-wide outages, to test disaster recovery scenarios or to reconfigure your Aurora global database topology.

get/#Action=FailoverGlobalCluster

Query parameters

GlobalClusterIdentifierstring required
<p>Identifier of the Aurora global database (<a>GlobalCluster</a>) that should be failed over. The identifier is the unique key assigned by the user when the Aurora global database was created. In other words, it's the name of the Aurora global database that you want to fail over.</p> <p>Constraints:</p> <ul> <li> <p>Must match the identifier of an existing <a>GlobalCluster</a> (Aurora global database).</p> </li> </ul>
TargetDbClusterIdentifierstring required

Identifier of the secondary Aurora DB cluster that you want to promote to primary for the Aurora global database (<a>GlobalCluster</a>.) Use the Amazon Resource Name (ARN) for the identifier so that Aurora can locate the cluster in its Amazon Web Services Region.

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

Response

Success