# Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) instance
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The following example shows a component configuration in JSON format for an Amazon RDS instance.

```
{
  "alarmMetrics" : [
    {
      "alarmMetricName" : "BurstBalance",
      "monitor" : true
    }, {
      "alarmMetricName" : "WriteThroughput",
      "monitor" : false
    }
  ],

  "alarms" : [
    {
      "alarmName" : "my_rds_instance_alarm",
      "severity" : "MEDIUM"
    }
  ]
}
```