To expand on Jervin’s Default RDS Account Privileges , RDS for MySQL provides a number of routines and triggers defined the the ‘mysql’ meta schema. These help in various tasks because the SUPER privilege is not provided.
SELECT routine_schema,routine_name FROM information_schema.routines; +----------------+-----------------------------------+ | routine_schema | routine_name | +----------------+-----------------------------------+ | mysql | rds_collect_global_status_history | | mysql | rds_disable_gsh_collector | | mysql | rds_disable_gsh_rotation | | mysql | rds_enable_gsh_collector | | mysql | rds_enable_gsh_rotation | | mysql | rds_kill | | mysql | rds_kill_query | | mysql | rds_rotate_general_log | | mysql | rds_rotate_global_status_history | | mysql | rds_rotate_slow_log | | mysql | rds_set_configuration | | mysql | rds_set_gsh_collector | | mysql | rds_set_gsh_rotation | | mysql | rds_show_configuration | | mysql | rds_skip_repl_error | +----------------+-----------------------------------+ 15 rows in set (0.00 sec) SELECT trigger_schema, trigger_name, CONCAT(event_object_schema,'.',event_object_table) AS table_name, CONCAT(action_timing,' ',event_manipulation) AS trigger_action FROM information_schema.triggers; +----------------+--------------+------------+----------------+ | trigger_schema | trigger_name | table_name | trigger_action | +----------------+--------------+------------+----------------+ | mysql | block_proc_u | mysql.proc | BEFORE UPDATE | | mysql | block_proc_d | mysql.proc | BEFORE DELETE | | mysql | block_user_i | mysql.user | BEFORE INSERT | | mysql | block_user_u | mysql.user | BEFORE UPDATE | | mysql | block_user_d | mysql.user | BEFORE DELETE | +----------------+--------------+------------+----------------+