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Difficulty in finding the Region names in AWS rds

How to get the names of all the rds instances in AWS using a boto script. I want to write a python script that fetches all the regions and then displays their dbinstances.

Solution

  • The following should give you all of the available regions for RDS.

    import boto.rds
regions = boto.rds.regions()

    Which would return a list of RegionInfo objects like this.

    [RegionInfo:us-east-1,
 RegionInfo:cn-north-1,
 RegionInfo:ap-northeast-1,
 RegionInfo:eu-west-1,
 RegionInfo:ap-southeast-1,
 RegionInfo:ap-southeast-2,
 RegionInfo:us-west-2,
 RegionInfo:us-gov-west-1,
 RegionInfo:us-west-1,
 RegionInfo:eu-central-1,
 RegionInfo:sa-east-1]

    If you then wanted to connect to one particular region, say eu-west-1 you could do this:

    region = regions[6]
conn = region.connect()

    or even:

    conn = boto.rds.connect_to_region(region.name)