# Amazon Relational Database Service events
Amazon RDS

Amazon RDS sends service events directly to EventBridge, as well as via AWS CloudTrail.

## Amazon RDS service events
Service events

Amazon RDS sends the following events directly to EventBridge: 
+ RDS DB Instance Event
+ RDS DB Security Group Event
+ RDS DB Parameter Group Event
+ RDS DB Snapshot Event
+ RDS DB Cluster Event
+ RDS DB Cluster Snapshot Event
+ RDS Custom Engine Version Event
+ RDS Blue Green Deployment Event
+ RDS DB Shard Group Event
+ RDS DB Proxy Event
+ RDS Zero ETL Event

*Delivery type*: [ Best effort ](event-delivery-level.md) 

To match against all events from this service, create an event pattern that matches against the following event attribute:
+ `source`: aws.rds

```
{
  "source": ["aws.rds"]
}
```

To match against specific events, include a `detail-type` attribute specifying an array of event names to match. For example:

```
{
  "source": ["aws.rds"],
  "detail-type": ["RDS DB Instance Event"]
}
```

For more information, see [Creating event patterns](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eventbridge/latest/userguide/eb-event-patterns.html#eb-create-pattern) in the *Amazon EventBridge User Guide*.

## Amazon RDS events delivered via AWS CloudTrail
Events via CloudTrail

AWS CloudTrail sends events originating from Amazon RDS to EventBridge. AWS services deliver events to CloudTrail on a [best effort](event-delivery-level.md) basis. For more information, see [AWS service events delivered via AWS CloudTrail](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eventbridge/latest/userguide/eb-service-event-cloudtrail.html) in the *Amazon EventBridge User Guide*.

To match events from this service delivered by AWS CloudTrail, create an event pattern that matches against the following event attributes:
+ `source`: aws.rds
+ `eventSource`: rds.amazonaws.com

```
{
  "source": ["aws.rds"],
  "detail-type": ["AWS API Call via CloudTrail"],
  "detail": {
    "eventSource": ["rds.amazonaws.com"]
  }
}
```

To match against a specific API calls from this service, include an `eventName` attribute specifying an array of API calls to match:

```
{
  "source": ["aws.rds"],
  "detail-type": ["AWS API Call via CloudTrail"],
  "detail": {
    "eventSource": ["rds.amazonaws.com"],
    "eventName": ["api-action-name"]
  }
}
```