ElastiCache / Client / describe_cache_engine_versions

describe_cache_engine_versions

ElastiCache.Client.describe_cache_engine_versions(**kwargs)

Returns a list of the available cache engines and their versions.

See also: AWS API Documentation

Request Syntax

response = client.describe_cache_engine_versions(
    Engine='string',
    EngineVersion='string',
    CacheParameterGroupFamily='string',
    MaxRecords=123,
    Marker='string',
    DefaultOnly=True|False
)

Parameters:

• Engine (string) – The cache engine to return. Valid values: memcached | redis

• EngineVersion (string) –

  The cache engine version to return.

  Example: 1.4.14

• CacheParameterGroupFamily (string) –

  The name of a specific cache parameter group family to return details for.

  Valid values are: memcached1.4 | memcached1.5 | memcached1.6 | redis2.6 | redis2.8 | redis3.2 | redis4.0 | redis5.0 | redis6.x | redis6.2 | redis7

  Constraints:

  • Must be 1 to 255 alphanumeric characters

  • First character must be a letter

  • Cannot end with a hyphen or contain two consecutive hyphens

• MaxRecords (integer) –

  The maximum number of records to include in the response. If more records exist than the specified MaxRecords value, a marker is included in the response so that the remaining results can be retrieved.

  Default: 100

  Constraints: minimum 20; maximum 100.

• Marker (string) – An optional marker returned from a prior request. Use this marker for pagination of results from this operation. If this parameter is specified, the response includes only records beyond the marker, up to the value specified by MaxRecords.

• DefaultOnly (boolean) – If true, specifies that only the default version of the specified engine or engine and major version combination is to be returned.

Return type:

dict

Returns:

Response Syntax

{
    'Marker': 'string',
    'CacheEngineVersions': [
        {
            'Engine': 'string',
            'EngineVersion': 'string',
            'CacheParameterGroupFamily': 'string',
            'CacheEngineDescription': 'string',
            'CacheEngineVersionDescription': 'string'
        },
    ]
}

Response Structure

• (dict) –

  Represents the output of a DescribeCacheEngineVersions operation.

  • Marker (string) –

    Provides an identifier to allow retrieval of paginated results.

  • CacheEngineVersions (list) –

    A list of cache engine version details. Each element in the list contains detailed information about one cache engine version.

    • (dict) –

      Provides all of the details about a particular cache engine version.

      • Engine (string) –

        The name of the cache engine.

      • EngineVersion (string) –

        The version number of the cache engine.

      • CacheParameterGroupFamily (string) –

        The name of the cache parameter group family associated with this cache engine.

        Valid values are: memcached1.4 | memcached1.5 | memcached1.6 | redis2.6 | redis2.8 | redis3.2 | redis4.0 | redis5.0 | redis6.x | redis7

      • CacheEngineDescription (string) –

        The description of the cache engine.

      • CacheEngineVersionDescription (string) –

        The description of the cache engine version.

Examples

Lists the details for up to 50 Redis cache engine versions.

response = client.describe_cache_engine_versions(
    DefaultOnly=False,
    Engine='redis',
    MaxRecords=50,
)

print(response)

Expected Output:

{
    'CacheEngineVersions': [
        {
            'CacheEngineDescription': 'Redis',
            'CacheEngineVersionDescription': 'redis version 2.6.13',
            'CacheParameterGroupFamily': 'redis2.6',
            'Engine': 'redis',
            'EngineVersion': '2.6.13',
        },
        {
            'CacheEngineDescription': 'Redis',
            'CacheEngineVersionDescription': 'redis version 2.8.19',
            'CacheParameterGroupFamily': 'redis2.8',
            'Engine': 'redis',
            'EngineVersion': '2.8.19',
        },
        {
            'CacheEngineDescription': 'Redis',
            'CacheEngineVersionDescription': 'redis version 2.8.21',
            'CacheParameterGroupFamily': 'redis2.8',
            'Engine': 'redis',
            'EngineVersion': '2.8.21',
        },
        {
            'CacheEngineDescription': 'Redis',
            'CacheEngineVersionDescription': 'redis version 2.8.22 R5',
            'CacheParameterGroupFamily': 'redis2.8',
            'Engine': 'redis',
            'EngineVersion': '2.8.22',
        },
        {
            'CacheEngineDescription': 'Redis',
            'CacheEngineVersionDescription': 'redis version 2.8.23 R4',
            'CacheParameterGroupFamily': 'redis2.8',
            'Engine': 'redis',
            'EngineVersion': '2.8.23',
        },
        {
            'CacheEngineDescription': 'Redis',
            'CacheEngineVersionDescription': 'redis version 2.8.24 R3',
            'CacheParameterGroupFamily': 'redis2.8',
            'Engine': 'redis',
            'EngineVersion': '2.8.24',
        },
        {
            'CacheEngineDescription': 'Redis',
            'CacheEngineVersionDescription': 'redis version 2.8.6',
            'CacheParameterGroupFamily': 'redis2.8',
            'Engine': 'redis',
            'EngineVersion': '2.8.6',
        },
        {
            'CacheEngineDescription': 'Redis',
            'CacheEngineVersionDescription': 'redis version 3.2.4',
            'CacheParameterGroupFamily': 'redis3.2',
            'Engine': 'redis',
            'EngineVersion': '3.2.4',
        },
    ],
    'Marker': '',
    'ResponseMetadata': {
        '...': '...',
    },
}