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DescribeAccountAttributes - Amazon Relational Database Service

DescribeAccountAttributes

Lists all of the attributes for a customer account. The attributes include Amazon RDS quotas for the account, such as the number of DB instances allowed. The description for a quota includes the quota name, current usage toward that quota, and the quota's maximum value.

This command doesn't take any parameters.

Response Elements

The following element is returned by the service.

AccountQuotas.AccountQuota.N

A list of AccountQuota objects. Within this list, each quota has a name, a count of usage toward the quota maximum, and a maximum value for the quota.

Type: Array of AccountQuota objects

Errors

For information about the errors that are common to all actions, see Common Errors.

Examples

Example

This example illustrates one usage of DescribeAccountAttributes.

Sample Request

https://rds.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/ ?Action=DescribeAccountAttributes &SignatureMethod=HmacSHA256 &SignatureVersion=4 &Version=2014-10-31 &X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256 &X-Amz-Credential=AKIADQKE4SARGYLE/20141216/us-west-2/rds/aws4_request &X-Amz-Date=20141216T192233Z &X-Amz-SignedHeaders=content-type;host;user-agent;x-amz-content-sha256;x-amz-date &X-Amz-Signature=b49545dd3c933bdded80655d433d84bf743261ea1bebb33a7922c5c2c5240cd8

Sample Response

<DescribeAccountAttributesResponse xmlns="http://rds.amazonaws.com/doc/2014-10-31/"> <DescribeAccountAttributesResult> <AccountQuotaList> <AccountQuota> <AccountQuotaName>DBInstances</AccountQuotaName> <Used>22</Used> <Max>40</Max </AccountQuota> <AccountQuota> <AccountQuotaName>ReservedDBInstances</AccountQuotaName> <Used>6</Used> <Max>40</Max </AccountQuota> <AccountQuota> <AccountQuotaName>AllocatedStorage</AccountQuotaName> <Used>27459</Used> <Max>100000</Max </AccountQuota> <AccountQuota> <AccountQuotaName>DBSecurityGroupsPerVPC</AccountQuotaName> <Used>11</Used> <Max>25</Max </AccountQuota> <AccountQuota> <AccountQuotaName>AuthorizationsPerDBSecurityGroup</AccountQuotaName> <Used>10</Used> <Max>20</Max </AccountQuota> <AccountQuota> <AccountQuotaName>DBParameterGroups</AccountQuotaName> <Used>40</Used> <Max>50</Max </AccountQuota> <AccountQuota> <AccountQuotaName>ManualSnapshots</AccountQuotaName> <Used>32</Used> <Max>50</Max </AccountQuota> <AccountQuota> <AccountQuotaName>EventSubscriptions</AccountQuotaName> <Used>3</Used> <Max>20</Max </AccountQuota> <AccountQuota> <AccountQuotaName>DBSubnetGroups</AccountQuotaName> <Used>19</Used> <Max>20</Max </AccountQuota> <AccountQuota> <AccountQuotaName>OptionGroups</AccountQuotaName> <Used>14</Used> <Max>20</Max </AccountQuota> <AccountQuota> <AccountQuotaName>SubnetsPerDBSubnetGroup</AccountQuotaName> <Used>6</Used> <Max>20</Max </AccountQuota> <AccountQuota> <AccountQuotaName>ReadReplicasPerMaster</AccountQuotaName> <Used>2</Used> <Max>5</Max </AccountQuota> <AccountQuota> <Used>1</Used> <AccountQuotaName>DBClusterRoles</AccountQuotaName> <Max>5</Max> </AccountQuota> </AccountQuotaList> </DescribeAccountAttributesResult> <ResponseMetadata> <RequestId>0ce48079-68e4-11de-8c8e-eb648410240d</RequestId> </ResponseMetadata> </DescribeAccountAttributesResponse>

See Also

For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

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