Thursday, March 7, 2024

How to Initiate the AWS Oracle RDS Data Guard switchover using the AWS CLI

Switch primary to read replica (standby ) and vice-versa


AWS CLI :

aws rds switchover-read-replica --db-instance-identifier ora-orcl-demo2 --region us-west-2



aws rds switchover-read-replica --db-instance-identifier ora-orcl-demo1  --region us-east-1


aws rds describe-db-instances --db-instance-identifier ora-orcl-demo1 


AWS Link 

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/managed-oracle-data-guard-switchover-with-amazon-rds-for-oracle/

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