d/rds_engine_version: New data source

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Description

Ease the practitioner burden of working across regions and partitions by providing access to information on database engine versions and specifically the default version. In addition, the preferred_versions argument should allow selecting a version from a list of acceptable options.

This data source is part of helping practitioners to avoid this error:

Error creating DB Instance: InvalidParameterCombination: RDS does not support creating a DB instance with the
following combination: DBInstanceClass=db.t1.micro, Engine=mysql, EngineVersion=5.6.27,
LicenseModel=general-public-license. For supported combinations of instance class and database engine version,
see the documentation.

New Data Source

• aws_rds_engine_version

Potential Terraform Configuration

data "aws_rds_engine_version" "test" {
  engine = "mysql"
}

References

• Error creating DB Instance: InvalidParameterCombination: RDS does not support creating a DB instance "MySQL" terraform#17013
• d/rds_orderable_db_instance: Add documentation for argument #15205
• d/rds_orderable_db_instance

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