**To promote a read replica** This example promotes a read replica (*test-instance-repl*) so that it becomes a standalone DB instance:: aws rds promote-read-replica --db-instance-identifier test-instance-repl Output:: { "DBInstance": { "DBInstanceArn": "arn:aws:rds:us-east-1:123456789012:db:test-instance-repl", "StorageType": "standard", "ReadReplicaSourceDBInstanceIdentifier": "test-instance", <...output omitted...> "DBInstanceStatus": "modifying", <...output omitted...> }