**To create an event subscription** The following ``create-event-subscription`` example creates a subscription for backup and recovery events for DB instances in the current AWS account. Notifications are sent to an Amazon Simple Notification Service topic, specified by ``--sns-topic-arn``. :: aws rds create-event-subscription \ --subscription-name my-instance-events \ --source-type db-instance \ --event-categories '["backup","recovery"]' \ --sns-topic-arn arn:aws:sns:us-east-1:123456789012:interesting-events Output:: { "EventSubscription": { "Status": "creating", "CustSubscriptionId": "my-instance-events", "SubscriptionCreationTime": "Tue Jul 31 23:22:01 UTC 2018", "EventCategoriesList": [ "backup", "recovery" ], "SnsTopicArn": "arn:aws:sns:us-east-1:123456789012:interesting-events", "CustomerAwsId": "123456789012", "EventSubscriptionArn": "arn:aws:rds:us-east-1:123456789012:es:my-instance-events", "SourceType": "db-instance", "Enabled": true } }