RDS What Versions

Question 1

What are the two methods of looking up your RDS version?

Answer 1

1. RDS Console

2. CLI

Question 2

Using the RDS console, what are the two areas used to lookup your RDS version?

Answer 2

1. Summary

2. Configuration details -> Engine

Question 3

Using CLI, what is the command to look up the RDS version?

Answer 3

aws rds describe-db-instances –region

replace with the actual region such as eu-west-1.

Question 4

Using the describe-db-instances command, what key-value pair in the JSON return will contain the RDS version?

Answer 4

DBParameterGroupName. This is found under the DBParameterGroups array.