**To purchase a reserved DB instance offering** This example purchases a reserved DB instance offering. The *reserved-db-instances-offering-id* must be a valid offering ID, as returned by the describe-reserved-db-instances-offering command. aws rds purchase-reserved-db-instances-offering \ --reserved-db-instances-offering-id 438012d3-4a52-4cc7-b2e3-8dff72e0e706