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DescribeStorage

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DescribeStorage - Amazon Redshift

Returns account level backups storage size and provisional storage.

Response Elements

The following elements are returned by the service.

TotalBackupSizeInMegaBytes

The total amount of storage currently used for snapshots.

Type: Double

TotalProvisionedStorageInMegaBytes

The total amount of storage currently provisioned.

Type: Double

Errors

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

Examples

Example

This example illustrates one usage of DescribeStorage.

Sample Request

https://redshift.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/ ?Action=DescribeStorage &SignatureMethod=HmacSHA256&SignatureVersion=4 &Version=2012-12-01 &X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256 &X-Amz-Credential=AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE/20190817/us-east-2/redshift/aws4_request &X-Amz-Date=20190825T160000Z &X-Amz-SignedHeaders=content-type;host;user-agent;x-amz-content-sha256;x-amz-date &X-Amz-Signature=0aa1234bb5cc678ddddd901ee2ff3aa45678b90c12d345e6ff789012345a6b7b

Sample Response

<DescribeStorageResponse xmlns="http://redshift.amazonaws.com/doc/2012-12-01/"> <DescribeStorageResult> <TotalProvisionedStorageInMegaBytes>491520.0</TotalProvisionedStorageInMegaBytes> <TotalBackupSizeInMegaBytes>26.0</TotalBackupSizeInMegaBytes> </DescribeStorageResult> <ResponseMetadata> <RequestId>d6b07363-28d3-11ea-8397-219d1980588b</RequestId> </ResponseMetadata> </DescribeStorageResponse>

See Also

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

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