**To describe certificates** This example describes the certificate associated with the us-east-1 region:: aws rds describe-certificates Output:: { "Certificates": [ { "Thumbprint": "34478a908a83ae45dcb61676d235ece975c62c63", "ValidFrom": "2015-02-05T21:54:04Z", "CertificateIdentifier": "rds-ca-2015", "ValidTill": "2020-03-05T21:54:04Z", "CertificateType": "CA", "CertificateArn": "arn:aws:rds:us-east-1::cert:rds-ca-2015" } ] }