diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/2141-rds-t3-m4.yml b/changelogs/fragments/2141-rds-t3-m4.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..369cf24624a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/2141-rds-t3-m4.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+trivial:
+- rds_instance - remove references to deprecated ``m4`` and ``t2`` RDS instance types (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/2141).
diff --git a/plugins/modules/rds_instance.py b/plugins/modules/rds_instance.py
index 93daf654381..9f90e1b0790 100644
--- a/plugins/modules/rds_instance.py
+++ b/plugins/modules/rds_instance.py
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@
         type: str
     db_instance_class:
         description:
-          - The compute and memory capacity of the DB instance, for example db.t2.micro.
+          - The compute and memory capacity of the DB instance, for example V(db.t3.micro).
         aliases:
           - class
           - instance_type
@@ -463,7 +463,7 @@
   amazon.aws.rds_instance:
     engine: aurora
     db_instance_identifier: ansible-test-aurora-db-instance
-    instance_type: db.t2.small
+    instance_type: db.t3.small
     password: "{{ password }}"
     username: "{{ username }}"
     cluster_id: ansible-test-cluster  # This cluster must exist - see rds_cluster to manage it
@@ -474,7 +474,7 @@
     state: present
     engine: mariadb
     storage_encrypted: true
-    db_instance_class: db.t2.medium
+    db_instance_class: db.t3.medium
     username: "{{ username }}"
     password: "{{ password }}"
     allocated_storage: "{{ allocated_storage }}"
@@ -602,7 +602,7 @@
   description: The name of the compute and memory capacity class of the DB instance.
   returned: always
   type: str
-  sample: db.m4.large
+  sample: db.m5.large
 db_instance_identifier:
   description: The identifier of the DB instance
   returned: always
diff --git a/plugins/modules/rds_instance_info.py b/plugins/modules/rds_instance_info.py
index 4fdcfa442e9..87e671d4bb8 100644
--- a/plugins/modules/rds_instance_info.py
+++ b/plugins/modules/rds_instance_info.py
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@
       description: Instance class of the database instance
       returned: always
       type: str
-      sample: db.t2.small
+      sample: db.t3.small
     db_instance_identifier:
       description: Database instance identifier
       returned: always