**To Describe an Amazon RDS DB instance**

The following ``describe-db-instances`` command describes all DB instances that are owned by the AWS account::

    aws rds describe-db-instances

This command output a JSON block that contains descriptive information about all the DB instances for this AWS account.

For more information, see `Describe an Amazon RDS DB Instance`_ in the *AWS Command Line Interface User Guide*.

.. _`Describe an Amazon RDS DB Instance`: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-rds-describe-instance.html

