alicloud_db_zones

This data source provides availability zones for RDS that can be accessed by an Alibaba Cloud account within the region configured in the provider.

-> NOTE: Available in v1.73.0+.

Example Usage

# Declare the data source
data "alicloud_db_zones" "zones_ids" {}

# Create an RDS instance with the first matched zone
resource "alicloud_db_instance" "db" {
    zone_id = ${data.alicloud_db_zones.zones_ids.zones.0.id}

  # Other properties...
}

Argument Reference

The following arguments are supported:

• multi - (Deprecated) It has been deprecated from version 1.137.0 and using multi_zone instead.
• multi_zone - (Optional, Available in 1.137.0+) Indicate whether the zones can be used in a multi AZ configuration. Default to false. Multi AZ is usually used to launch RDS instances.
• instance_charge_type - (Optional) Filter the results by a specific instance charge type. Valid values: PrePaid and PostPaid and Serverless. Default to PostPaid.
• engine - (Optional, Available in 1.134.0+) Database type. Valid values: "MySQL", "SQLServer", "PostgreSQL", "MariaDB". If not set, it will match all of engines.
• engine_version - (Optional, Available in 1.134.0+) Database version required by the user. Value options can refer to the latest docs detail info EngineVersion.
• category - (Optional, Available in 1.134.0+) DB Instance category. the value like [Basic, HighAvailability, Finance, AlwaysOn, serverless_basic, serverless_standard, serverless_ha, cluster], detail info.
• db_instance_storage_type - (Optional, Available in 1.134.0+) The DB instance storage space required by the user. Valid values: "cloud_ssd", "local_ssd", "cloud_essd", "cloud_essd2", "cloud_essd3".
• output_file - (Optional) File name where to save data source results (after running terraform plan).

Attributes Reference

The following attributes are exported in addition to the arguments listed above:

• ids - A list of zone IDs.
• zones - A list of availability zones. Each element contains the following attributes:
  • id - ID of the zone.
  • multi_zone_ids - A list of zone ids in which the multi zone.