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DescribeResiliencyPolicy - AWS Resilience Hub

DescribeResiliencyPolicy

Describes a specified resiliency policy for an AWS Resilience Hub application. The returned policy object includes creation time, data location constraints, the Amazon Resource Name (ARN) for the policy, tags, tier, and more.

Request Syntax

POST /describe-resiliency-policy HTTP/1.1 Content-type: application/json { "policyArn": "string" }

URI Request Parameters

The request does not use any URI parameters.

Request Body

The request accepts the following data in JSON format.

policyArn

Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the resiliency policy. The format for this ARN is: arn:partition:resiliencehub:region:account:resiliency-policy/policy-id. For more information about ARNs, see Amazon Resource Names (ARNs) in the AWS General Reference guide.

Type: String

Pattern: ^arn:(aws|aws-cn|aws-iso|aws-iso-[a-z]{1}|aws-us-gov):[A-Za-z0-9][A-Za-z0-9_/.-]{0,62}:([a-z]{2}-((iso[a-z]{0,1}-)|(gov-)){0,1}[a-z]+-[0-9]):[0-9]{12}:[A-Za-z0-9/][A-Za-z0-9:_/+.-]{0,1023}$

Required: Yes

Response Syntax

HTTP/1.1 200 Content-type: application/json { "policy": { "creationTime": number, "dataLocationConstraint": "string", "estimatedCostTier": "string", "policy": { "string" : { "rpoInSecs": number, "rtoInSecs": number } }, "policyArn": "string", "policyDescription": "string", "policyName": "string", "tags": { "string" : "string" }, "tier": "string" } }

Response Elements

If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 200 response.

The following data is returned in JSON format by the service.

policy

Information about the specific resiliency policy, returned as an object. This object includes creation time, data location constraints, its name, description, tags, the recovery time objective (RTO) and recovery point objective (RPO) in seconds, and more.

Type: ResiliencyPolicy object

Errors

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

AccessDeniedException

You don't have permissions to perform the requested operation. The user or role that is making the request must have at least one IAM permissions policy attached that grants the required permissions.

HTTP Status Code: 403

InternalServerException

This exception occurs when there is an internal failure in the AWS Resilience Hub service.

HTTP Status Code: 500

ResourceNotFoundException

This exception occurs when the specified resource could not be found.

HTTP Status Code: 404

ThrottlingException

This exception occurs when you have exceeded the limit on the number of requests per second.

HTTP Status Code: 429

ValidationException

This exception occurs when a request is not valid.

HTTP Status Code: 400

See Also

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

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