aws rds enable-http-endpoint not changing flag of postgres db cluster

Question

I am running a postgres db cluster on aws and I'd like to allow an ec2 instance to make programmatic changes to the database. When I try to run the program I get the following error:

"botocore.errorfactory.HttpEndpointNotEnabledException: An error occurred (HttpEndpointNotEnabledException) when calling the ExecuteStatement operation: HttpEndpoint is not enabled for resource arn:aws:rds:xxxx:xxxx:cluster:xxxx." 

However, when I try to enable HttpEndpoint through the aws cli on the ec2 instance with the command:

aws rds modify-db-cluster --db-cluster-identifier db-xxxx --enable-http-endpoint

The flag is left unchanged. I also tried using the --apply-immediately flag, though the docs say this shouldn't matter. How do I enable an HttpEndpoint on a postgres 16.3 db cluster running on aws?

On an ec2 instance connected to the postgres cluster:

$ aws rds modify-db-cluster --db-cluster-identifier db-xxxx --enable-http-endpoint

and

$ aws rds modify-db-cluster --db-cluster-identifier db-xxxx --enable-http-endpoint --apply-immediately

both give the same response:

{
    "DBCluster: {
        "AllocatedStorage": xxxx,
        "DBClusterIdentifier": "db-xxxxx",
        ...
        "HttpEndpointEnabled: false,
        ...
}

I was expecting the response to have changed the HttpEndpointEnabled value to true:

{
    "DBCluster: {
        "AllocatedStorage": xxxx,
        "DBClusterIdentifier": "db-xxxxx",
        ...
        "HttpEndpointEnabled: true,
        ...
}

I also tried running:

aws rds enable-http-endpoint --resource-arn arn:aws:rds:us-east-2:xxxx:cluster:db-xxxx

On an Aurora PostgreSQL cluster, but ran into the following error:

An error occurred (InvalidParameterValue) when calling the EnableHttpEndpoint operation: Access Denied to API Version: APIDataApi

I tried opening up the Security Group to All Traffic, thinking that the command might be on some port other than 5432, but still the same error.

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Answer 1

The modify-db-cluster option only works with Aurora Serverless V1 according to the docs, so that likely won't help you. You write about a Postgres 16.3 DB Cluster, the latest supported version that I can see is 16.2 at the time of writing this, are you sure this is correct?

Aside from that, the first docs I linked mentioned that you're supposed to use the EnableHttpEndpoint or the DisableHttpEndpoint APIs for anything other that Aurora Serverless v1.

In your case the following command should enable the Endpoint:

$ aws rds enable-http-endpoint --resource-arn <cluster-arn>