GET

/#Action=FailoverDBCluster

http://rds.{region}.amazonaws.com/#Action=FailoverDBCluster

Forces a failover for a DB cluster. A failover for a DB cluster promotes one of the Read Replicas (read-only instances) in the DB cluster to be the primary instance (the cluster writer). Amazon Neptune will automatically fail over to a Read Replica, if one exists, when the primary instance fails. You can force a failover when you want to simulate a failure of a primary instance for testing. Because each instance in a DB cluster has its own endpoint address, you will need to clean up and re-establish any existing connections that use those endpoint addresses when the failover is complete.

Access Token Required: API Key

Query Params

DBClusterIdentifierstring

A DB cluster identifier to force a failover for. This parameter is not case-sensitive. Constraints: <ul> <li> Must match the identifier of an existing DBCluster. </li> </ul>

TargetDBInstanceIdentifierstring

The name of the instance to promote to the primary instance. You must specify the instance identifier for an Read Replica in the DB cluster. For example, <code>mydbcluster-replica1</code>.

Actionstringrequired

Allowed:

Versionstringrequired

Allowed:

Responses

{
  "success": true,
  "data": {
    "id": "abc123",
    "created_at": "2025-01-01T00:00:00Z"
  }
}

{
  "success": false,
  "error": {
    "code": "VALIDATION_ERROR",
    "message": "Invalid request parameters"
  }
}

Language

CredentialsAPI KEY

API Key

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cURL Request

1curl --request GET \
2     --url 'http://rds.{region}.amazonaws.com/#Action=FailoverDBCluster' \
3     --header 'accept: application/json' \
4     --header 'content-type: application/json'

Response

1{
2  "success": true,
3  "data": {
4    "id": "abc123",
5    "created_at": "2025-01-01T00:00:00Z"
6  }
7}