Dear Tencent Cloud user,
Starting from August 22, 2025, Tencent Cloud will optimize the authentication level for the API DescribeTasks of TencentDB for MySQL. Details are as follows:
Optimization Effective Time
August 22, 2025 (Friday) (UTC+8).
Involved APIs (1 in Total)
API name: DescribeTasks
API feature: This API is used to query the list of tasks for a cloud database instance.
Optimization Details
The category of this API will change from "read" to "list", and the authorization granularity will change from "operation-level" to "resource-level".
Optimization Description
Before optimization: The root account can authorize sub-users in Cloud Access Management (CAM) to use the API DescribeTasks to query task lists of all instances under the root account.
After optimization: The root account can authorize sub-users in CAM to use the API DescribeTasks to query task lists of specified instances under the root account.
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