Getting an existing ARN for Amazon RDS

You can get the ARN of an RDS resource by using the AWS Management Console, AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI), or RDS API.

Console

To get an ARN from the AWS Management Console, navigate to the resource you want an ARN for, and view the details for that resource.

For example, you can get the ARN for a DB instance from the Configuration tab of the DB instance details.

AWS CLI

To get an ARN from the AWS CLI for a particular RDS resource, you use the describe command for that resource. The following table shows each AWS CLI command, and the ARN property used with the command to get an ARN.

AWS CLI command	ARN property
describe-event-subscriptions	EventSubscriptionArn
describe-certificates	CertificateArn
describe-db-parameter-groups	DBParameterGroupArn
describe-db-cluster-parameter-groups	DBClusterParameterGroupArn
describe-db-instances	DBInstanceArn
describe-db-security-groups	DBSecurityGroupArn
describe-db-snapshots	DBSnapshotArn
describe-events	SourceArn
describe-reserved-db-instances	ReservedDBInstanceArn
describe-db-subnet-groups	DBSubnetGroupArn
describe-option-groups	OptionGroupArn
describe-db-clusters	DBClusterArn
describe-db-cluster-snapshots	DBClusterSnapshotArn

For example, the following AWS CLI command gets the ARN for a DB instance.

Example

For Linux, macOS, or Unix:

aws rds describe-db-instances \
--db-instance-identifier DBInstanceIdentifier \
--region us-west-2 \
--query "*[].{DBInstanceIdentifier:DBInstanceIdentifier,DBInstanceArn:DBInstanceArn}"

For Windows:

aws rds describe-db-instances ^
--db-instance-identifier DBInstanceIdentifier ^
--region us-west-2 ^
--query "*[].{DBInstanceIdentifier:DBInstanceIdentifier,DBInstanceArn:DBInstanceArn}"

The output of that command is like the following:

[
    {
        "DBInstanceArn": "arn:aws:rds:us-west-2:account_id:db:instance_id", 
        "DBInstanceIdentifier": "instance_id"
    }
]

RDS API

To get an ARN for a particular RDS resource, you can call the following RDS API operations and use the ARN properties shown following.

RDS API operation	ARN property
DescribeEventSubscriptions	EventSubscriptionArn
DescribeCertificates	CertificateArn
DescribeDBParameterGroups	DBParameterGroupArn
DescribeDBClusterParameterGroups	DBClusterParameterGroupArn
DescribeDBInstances	DBInstanceArn
DescribeDBSecurityGroups	DBSecurityGroupArn
DescribeDBSnapshots	DBSnapshotArn
DescribeEvents	SourceArn
DescribeReservedDBInstances	ReservedDBInstanceArn
DescribeDBSubnetGroups	DBSubnetGroupArn
DescribeOptionGroups	OptionGroupArn
DescribeDBClusters	DBClusterArn
DescribeDBClusterSnapshots	DBClusterSnapshotArn