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# Yandex Cloud API for Managed Service for YDB

You can manage Managed Service for YDB resources using the [Yandex Cloud API](../../api-design-guide/index.md).

The Yandex Cloud API allows you to:

* Manage databases.
* Manage database backups.
* Get information about availability zones, computing resources, and storage group disk types for a dedicated database.
* View the status of asynchronous API operations and cancel them.

With the Yandex Cloud API and [Terraform](https://www.terraform.io/), you can automate Managed Service for YDB resource management.
For more information about the provider resources, see the relevant articles on the [Terraform](https://www.terraform.io/docs/providers/yandex/index.html) website or [its mirror](https://registry.tfpla.net/providers/yandex-cloud/yandex/latest/docs).