Creating Aurora Cluster with Postgresql fails

I expected that by just changing engine and engineVersion I would get a Postgresql Cluster.

Reproduction Steps

Running CDK with db-stack that contains:

    this.cluster = new DatabaseCluster(this, 'ProductDatabase', {
      defaultDatabaseName: 'ProductDb',
      engine: DatabaseClusterEngine.AURORA_POSTGRESQL,
      engineVersion: '11.4',
      masterUser: {
        username: 'clusteradmin',
      },
      instanceProps: {
        instanceType: InstanceType.of(InstanceClass.BURSTABLE2, InstanceSize.SMALL),
        vpcSubnets: {
          subnetType: SubnetType.ISOLATED,
        },
        vpc: props.vpc,
      },
    })

fails with:

The Parameter Group default.aurora5.6 with DBParameterGroupFamily aurora5.6 cannot be used for this instance. Please use a Parameter Group with DBParameterGroupFamily aurora-postgresql11 (Service: AmazonRDS; Status Code: 400; Error Code: InvalidParameterCombination; Request ID: 4ced8114-0f04-4659-9cde-c214db8638fa)

Clearly it’s not supposed to pick aurora5.6 group family with postgresql11 but I have no idea what I’m doing wrong so I expect this to be a bug.

Error Log

  6/14 | 10:02:08 AM | CREATE_FAILED        | AWS::RDS::DBCluster                         | ProductDatabase (ProductDatabase9844B02C) The Parameter Group default.aurora5.6 with DBParameterGroupFamily aurora5.6 cannot be used for this instance. Please use a Parameter Group with DBParameterGroupFamily aurora-postgresql11 (Service: AmazonRDS; Status Code: 400; Error Code: InvalidParameterCombination; Request ID: 4ced8114-0f04-4659-9cde-c214db8638fa)
	new DatabaseCluster (/home/vertti/dev/kesko/k-ruoka-product-service/node_modules/@aws-cdk/aws-rds/lib/cluster.ts:315:21)
	\_ new ProductDbStack (/home/vertti/dev/kesko/k-ruoka-product-service/lib/db-stack.ts:17:20)
	\_ Object.<anonymous> (/home/vertti/dev/kesko/k-ruoka-product-service/bin/product-service.ts:11:17)
	\_ Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:778:30)
	\_ Module.m._compile (/home/vertti/dev/kesko/k-ruoka-product-service/node_modules/ts-node/src/index.ts:530:23)
	\_ Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:789:10)
	\_ Object.require.extensions.(anonymous function) [as .ts] (/home/vertti/dev/kesko/k-ruoka-product-service/node_modules/ts-node/src/index.ts:533:12)
	\_ Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:653:32)
	\_ tryModuleLoad (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:593:12)
	\_ Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:585:3)
	\_ Function.Module.runMain (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:831:12)

Environment

• CLI Version : 1.5.0
• Framework Version: 1.5.0
• OS : Ubuntu
• Language : Typescript

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[vertti]

Adding the folllowing to the cluster definition:

 parameterGroup: ParameterGroup.fromParameterGroupName(this, 'ParameterGroup', 'default.aurora-postgresql11'),

gets you past the error message above. This should really by described in the documentation!

But after adding that I get a new error message:

RDS does not support creating a DB instance with the following combination: DBInstanceClass=db.t2.small, Engine=aurora-postgresql, EngineVersion=11.4, LicenseModel=postgresql-license. For supported combinations of instance class and database engine version, see the documentation. (Service: AmazonRDS; Status Code: 400; Error Code: InvalidParameterCombination; Request ID: dfb07895-5687-486e-a39e-49b0e59a170f)

From what I can find from AWS documentation, 11.4 is supported and db.t2.small is allowed for all Postgreqsql versions.

[konstantinj]

fyi: I’m having the same issue + also the port is 3306 instead of 5432 when choosing DatabaseClusterEngine.AURORA_POSTGRESQL and adding the mentioned parameterGroup.