ApsaraDB RDS:Integration overview

Version description

ApsaraDB RDS uses version numbers to manage API versions. The current recommended version is 2014-08-15. Note that 2014-08-15 is a version identifier, not a date.

Online debugging

OpenAPI Explorer supports API debugging for ApsaraDB RDS. Before calling API operations, review the available versions, endpoints, and integration methods.

Online debugging page

Access OpenAPI Explorer.

Debugging entrypoint: Debug API

Endpoints

Use the endpoint for the region where your instance resides to reduce latency. For example, for an instance in the China (Zhangjiakou) region, the public endpoint is rds.cn-zhangjiakou.aliyuncs.com and the virtual private cloud (VPC) endpoint is rds-vpc.cn-zhangjiakou.aliyuncs.com.

• The public endpoint is accessible globally.

• VPC endpoints offer the following advantages over public endpoints:

  • High security: VPC endpoints are accessible only within a VPC, providing higher security and privacy.

  • Fast response: Data travels over the VPC network, reducing latency and avoiding bandwidth limitations.

  • Low cost: Traffic over VPC endpoints uses the internal network.

For more information, see Endpoints.

Supported user identities

By default, OpenAPI Explorer uses your Alibaba Cloud account for online debugging. An Alibaba Cloud account has full permissions across all API operations, which poses security risks. Call API operations and perform routine O&M using a RAM user or RAM role instead. Before using a RAM user, grant the permissions required to manage ApsaraDB RDS resources. For more information, see Authorize a RAM user to manage ApsaraDB RDS instances.

References

• Identity, credential, and authorization

• Throttling and quota management

Alibaba Cloud SDKs

Alibaba Cloud SDKs are available in Java, C#, Go, Python, TypeScript, Node.js, PHP, and C++. SDKs handle request signing, timeouts, and retries, and return structured response objects that simplify development. For more information, see Alibaba Cloud SDKs.

For supported languages and dependencies for ApsaraDB RDS, see OpenAPI Explorer.

Alibaba Cloud CLI

Alibaba Cloud CLI lets you run aliyun commands to interact with Alibaba Cloud services and manage cloud resources. For more information, see What is Alibaba Cloud CLI?

To call ApsaraDB RDS API operations using Alibaba Cloud CLI, see Generate a command.

ROS

Resource Orchestration Service (ROS) automates the creation and configuration of cloud resources. Define your infrastructure—including Elastic Compute Service (ECS) instances and ApsaraDB RDS instances, and the relationship between the resources—in a template, and ROS provisions everything automatically to implement automated deployment and O&M. For more information, see What is ROS?

For supported ApsaraDB RDS resources and data types, see ApsaraDB RDS resources supported by ROS.

Custom encapsulated API calls

To make native HTTP calls, construct requests manually and sign them. For signature details, see List of operations by function and Request syntax and signature method V3.