User is not authorized to perform rds:DescribeDBEnginerVersions Error RDS Amazon

Question

When I navigate to RDS and try to create a new DB Instance, This error is displayed. Can anyone help as What might be the cause? How to solve this error? is this on my side or should I contact AWS Help Centre?

TIA

Answer 1

There is such a permission. You can add it to your IAM user (or your admin can do it) in a number of ways. One way is through an inline policy:

{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Sid": "VisualEditor0",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": "rds:DescribeDBEngineVersions",
            "Resource": "*"
        }
    ]
}

The "Resource": "*" must be as is. rds:DescribeDBEngineVersions is a generic permission, not applicable to a specific database.