DescribeCertificates
Lists the set of certificate authority (CA) certificates provided by Amazon RDS for this AWS account.
For more information, see Using SSL/TLS to encrypt a connection to a DB instance in the Amazon RDS User Guide and Using SSL/TLS to encrypt a connection to a DB cluster in the Amazon Aurora User Guide.
Request Parameters
For information about the parameters that are common to all actions, see Common Parameters.
- CertificateIdentifier
-
The user-supplied certificate identifier. If this parameter is specified, information for only the identified certificate is returned. This parameter isn't case-sensitive.
Constraints:
-
Must match an existing CertificateIdentifier.
Type: String
Required: No
-
- Filters.Filter.N
-
This parameter isn't currently supported.
Type: Array of Filter objects
Required: No
- Marker
-
An optional pagination token provided by a previous
DescribeCertificatesrequest. If this parameter is specified, the response includes only records beyond the marker, up to the value specified byMaxRecords.Type: String
Required: No
- MaxRecords
-
The maximum number of records to include in the response. If more records exist than the specified
MaxRecordsvalue, a pagination token called a marker is included in the response so you can retrieve the remaining results.Default: 100
Constraints: Minimum 20, maximum 100.
Type: Integer
Required: No
Response Elements
The following elements are returned by the service.
- Certificates.Certificate.N
-
The list of
Certificateobjects for the AWS account.Type: Array of Certificate objects
- DefaultCertificateForNewLaunches
-
The default root CA for new databases created by your AWS account. This is either the root CA override set on your AWS account or the system default CA for the Region if no override exists. To override the default CA, use the
ModifyCertificatesoperation.Type: String
- Marker
-
An optional pagination token provided by a previous
DescribeCertificatesrequest. If this parameter is specified, the response includes only records beyond the marker, up to the value specified byMaxRecords.Type: String
Errors
For information about the errors that are common to all actions, see Common Errors.
- CertificateNotFound
-
CertificateIdentifierdoesn't refer to an existing certificate.HTTP Status Code: 404
Examples
Example
This example illustrates one usage of DescribeCertificates.
Sample Request
https://rds.amazonaws.com/
?Action=DescribeCertificates
&MaxRecords=100
&SignatureMethod=HmacSHA256
&SignatureVersion=4
&Version=2014-10-31
&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256
&X-Amz-Credential=AKIADQKE4SARGYLE/20141121/us-west-2/rds/aws4_request
&X-Amz-Date=20141121T164732Z
&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=content-type;host;user-agent;x-amz-content-sha256;x-amz-date
&X-Amz-Signature=6e25c542bf96fe24b28c12976ec92d2f856ab1d2a158e21c35441a736e4fde2bSample Response
<DescribeCertificatesResponse xmlns="http://rds.amazonaws.com/doc/2014-10-31/">
<DescribeCertificatesResult>
<Certificates>
<Certificate>
<CertificateIdentifier>rdscacertificate</CertificateIdentifier>
<CertificateType>ca</CertificateType>
<ThumbPrint>xxxxxxxxxxxx</ThumbPrint>
<ValidFrom>2010-05-22T01:12:00.000Z</ValidFrom>
<ValidTill>2014-05-22T01:12:00.000Z</ValidTill>
</Certificate>
</Certificates>
</DescribeCertificatesResult>
<ResponseMetadata>
<RequestId>9135fff3-8509-11e0-bd9b-a7b1ece36d51</RequestId>
</ResponseMetadata>
</DescribeCertificatesResponse>See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:
