Getting an existing ARN for Amazon RDS

To get an ARN from the Amazon Web Services 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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