# Listing the Amazon RDS event notification categories
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All events for a resource type are grouped into categories. To view the list of categories available, use the following procedures.

## Console
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When you create or modify an event notification subscription, the event categories are displayed in the Amazon RDS console. For more information, see [Modifying an Amazon RDS event notification subscription](USER_Events.Modifying.md). 

![\[List DB event notification categories\]](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/images/EventNotification-Categories.png)




## AWS CLI
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To list the Amazon RDS event notification categories, use the AWS CLI [https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/rds/describe-event-categories.html](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/rds/describe-event-categories.html) command. This command has no required parameters.

**Example**  

```
aws rds describe-event-categories
```

## API
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To list the Amazon RDS event notification categories, use the Amazon RDS API [https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/APIReference/API_DescribeEventCategories.html](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/APIReference/API_DescribeEventCategories.html) command. This command has no required parameters.