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Updated on 2026-01-05 GMT+08:00

Setting a Policy for a Serverless DB Instance

Function

This API is used to set a policy for a serverless DB instance. Before calling this API:

Calling Method

For details, see Calling APIs.

Authorization Information

Each account has all the permissions required to call all APIs, but IAM users must be assigned the required permissions.

  • If you are using role/policy-based authorization, see Permissions and Supported Actions for details on the required permissions.
  • If you are using identity policy-based authorization, the following identity policy-based permissions are required.

    Action

    Access Level

    Resource Type (*: required)

    Condition Key

    Alias

    Dependency

    gaussdbformysql:autoscaling:modifyPolicy

    Write

    instance *

    • g:EnterpriseProjectId

    • g:ResourceTag/<tag-key>

    gaussdb:serverless:modifyPolicy

    -

URI

PUT /v3/{project_id}/instances/{instance_id}/serverless/policy

Table 1 URI parameters

Parameter

Mandatory

Type

Description

project_id

Yes

String

Definition

Project ID of a tenant in a region.

To obtain this value, see Obtaining a Project ID.

Constraints

N/A

Range

The value contains 32 characters. Only letters and digits are allowed.

Default Value

N/A

instance_id

Yes

String

Definition

Instance ID, which uniquely identifies an instance.

Constraints

N/A

Range

The value contains 36 characters with a suffix of in07. Only letters and digits are allowed.

Default Value

N/A

Request Parameters

Table 2 Request header parameters

Parameter

Mandatory

Type

Description

X-Auth-Token

Yes

String

Definition

User token. To obtain this value, call the IAM API for obtaining a user token.

The value of X-Subject-Token in the response header is the token value.

Constraints

N/A

Range

N/A

Default Value

N/A

Content-Type

Yes

String

Definition

Content type.

Constraints

N/A

Range

application/json

Default Value

application/json

X-Language

No

String

Definition

Request language type.

Constraints

N/A

Range

  • en-us

  • zh-cn

Default Value

en-us

Table 3 Request body parameters

Parameter

Mandatory

Type

Description

min_vcpus

Yes

Integer

Definition

Minimum number of vCPUs for a single node.

Range

You can obtain the value of this parameter from Querying Database Specifications.

max_vcpus

Yes

Integer

Definition

Maximum number of vCPUs for a single node.

Range

You can obtain the value of this parameter from Querying Database Specifications.

Response Parameters

Status code: 200

Success.

Status code: 400

Table 4 Response body parameters

Parameter

Type

Description

error_code

String

Error code.

error_msg

String

Error message.

Status code: 500

Table 5 Response body parameters

Parameter

Type

Description

error_code

String

Error code.

error_msg

String

Error message.

Example Request

Setting the minimum number of vCPUs to 1 and the maximum number of vCPUs to 4

PUT https://{Endpoint}/v3/054e292c9880d4992f02c0196d3ea468/instances/096c0fc43e804757b59946b80dc27f8bin07/serverless/policy

{
  "min_vcpus" : 1,
  "max_vcpus" : 4
}

Example Response

None

SDK Sample Code

The SDK sample code is as follows.

Setting the minimum number of vCPUs to 1 and the maximum number of vCPUs to 4

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package com.huaweicloud.sdk.test;

import com.huaweicloud.sdk.core.auth.ICredential;
import com.huaweicloud.sdk.core.auth.BasicCredentials;
import com.huaweicloud.sdk.core.exception.ConnectionException;
import com.huaweicloud.sdk.core.exception.RequestTimeoutException;
import com.huaweicloud.sdk.core.exception.ServiceResponseException;
import com.huaweicloud.sdk.gaussdb.v3.region.GaussDBRegion;
import com.huaweicloud.sdk.gaussdb.v3.*;
import com.huaweicloud.sdk.gaussdb.v3.model.*;


public class UpdateServerlessPolicySolution {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        // The AK and SK used for authentication are hard-coded or stored in plaintext, which has great security risks. It is recommended that the AK and SK be stored in ciphertext in configuration files or environment variables and decrypted during use to ensure security.
        // In this example, AK and SK are stored in environment variables for authentication. Before running this example, set environment variables CLOUD_SDK_AK and CLOUD_SDK_SK in the local environment
        String ak = System.getenv("CLOUD_SDK_AK");
        String sk = System.getenv("CLOUD_SDK_SK");
        String projectId = "{project_id}";

        ICredential auth = new BasicCredentials()
                .withProjectId(projectId)
                .withAk(ak)
                .withSk(sk);

        GaussDBClient client = GaussDBClient.newBuilder()
                .withCredential(auth)
                .withRegion(GaussDBRegion.valueOf("<YOUR REGION>"))
                .build();
        UpdateServerlessPolicyRequest request = new UpdateServerlessPolicyRequest();
        request.withInstanceId("{instance_id}");
        UpdateServerlessPolicy body = new UpdateServerlessPolicy();
        body.withMaxVcpus(4);
        body.withMinVcpus(1);
        request.withBody(body);
        try {
            UpdateServerlessPolicyResponse response = client.updateServerlessPolicy(request);
            System.out.println(response.toString());
        } catch (ConnectionException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (RequestTimeoutException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (ServiceResponseException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
            System.out.println(e.getHttpStatusCode());
            System.out.println(e.getRequestId());
            System.out.println(e.getErrorCode());
            System.out.println(e.getErrorMsg());
        }
    }
}

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# coding: utf-8

import os
from huaweicloudsdkcore.auth.credentials import BasicCredentials
from huaweicloudsdkgaussdb.v3.region.gaussdb_region import GaussDBRegion
from huaweicloudsdkcore.exceptions import exceptions
from huaweicloudsdkgaussdb.v3 import *

if __name__ == "__main__":
    # The AK and SK used for authentication are hard-coded or stored in plaintext, which has great security risks. It is recommended that the AK and SK be stored in ciphertext in configuration files or environment variables and decrypted during use to ensure security.
    # In this example, AK and SK are stored in environment variables for authentication. Before running this example, set environment variables CLOUD_SDK_AK and CLOUD_SDK_SK in the local environment
    ak = os.environ["CLOUD_SDK_AK"]
    sk = os.environ["CLOUD_SDK_SK"]
    projectId = "{project_id}"

    credentials = BasicCredentials(ak, sk, projectId)

    client = GaussDBClient.new_builder() \
        .with_credentials(credentials) \
        .with_region(GaussDBRegion.value_of("<YOUR REGION>")) \
        .build()

    try:
        request = UpdateServerlessPolicyRequest()
        request.instance_id = "{instance_id}"
        request.body = UpdateServerlessPolicy(
            max_vcpus=4,
            min_vcpus=1
        )
        response = client.update_serverless_policy(request)
        print(response)
    except exceptions.ClientRequestException as e:
        print(e.status_code)
        print(e.request_id)
        print(e.error_code)
        print(e.error_msg)

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package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"github.com/huaweicloud/huaweicloud-sdk-go-v3/core/auth/basic"
    gaussdb "github.com/huaweicloud/huaweicloud-sdk-go-v3/services/gaussdb/v3"
	"github.com/huaweicloud/huaweicloud-sdk-go-v3/services/gaussdb/v3/model"
    region "github.com/huaweicloud/huaweicloud-sdk-go-v3/services/gaussdb/v3/region"
)

func main() {
    // The AK and SK used for authentication are hard-coded or stored in plaintext, which has great security risks. It is recommended that the AK and SK be stored in ciphertext in configuration files or environment variables and decrypted during use to ensure security.
    // In this example, AK and SK are stored in environment variables for authentication. Before running this example, set environment variables CLOUD_SDK_AK and CLOUD_SDK_SK in the local environment
    ak := os.Getenv("CLOUD_SDK_AK")
    sk := os.Getenv("CLOUD_SDK_SK")
    projectId := "{project_id}"

    auth := basic.NewCredentialsBuilder().
        WithAk(ak).
        WithSk(sk).
        WithProjectId(projectId).
        Build()

    client := gaussdb.NewGaussDBClient(
        gaussdb.GaussDBClientBuilder().
            WithRegion(region.ValueOf("<YOUR REGION>")).
            WithCredential(auth).
            Build())

    request := &model.UpdateServerlessPolicyRequest{}
	request.InstanceId = "{instance_id}"
	request.Body = &model.UpdateServerlessPolicy{
		MaxVcpus: int32(4),
		MinVcpus: int32(1),
	}
	response, err := client.UpdateServerlessPolicy(request)
	if err == nil {
        fmt.Printf("%+v\n", response)
    } else {
        fmt.Println(err)
    }
}

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Status Code

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Error Code

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