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Shard - Amazon MemoryDB

Shard

Represents a collection of nodes in a cluster. One node in the node group is the read/write primary node. All the other nodes are read-only Replica nodes.

Contents

Name

The name of the shard

Type: String

Required: No

Nodes

A list containing information about individual nodes within the shard

Type: Array of Node objects

Required: No

NumberOfNodes

The number of nodes in the shard

Type: Integer

Required: No

Slots

The keyspace for this shard.

Type: String

Required: No

Status

The current state of this replication group - creating, available, modifying, deleting.

Type: String

Required: No

See Also

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

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