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🔒 Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition now supports community MySQL 8.4, aligning Aurora version numbers with community releases and managing underlying patches for customers. The release enforces stronger security defaults—TLS 1.2/1.3 only and caching_sha2_password for new accounts—and offers customizable password validation via DB cluster parameter groups. Automated upgrade prechecks reduce upgrade risk, and multiple upgrade and migration paths are supported, including Blue/Green Deployments and AWS DMS.

🔔 Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server now supports the latest General Distribution Release (GDR) updates for Microsoft SQL Server, including SQL Server 2019 CU32+GDR KB5084816 and SQL Server 2022 CU24+GDR KB5083252. These updates address vulnerabilities tracked as CVE-2026-32167 and CVE-2026-32176. You can apply the updates via the Amazon RDS Management Console or programmatically with the AWS SDK or CLI, and guidance is available in the Amazon RDS Custom User Guide.

🧩 ExtendDB v0.1 implements the DynamoDB API with pluggable storage backends, enabling developers to run DynamoDB-shaped workloads outside AWS-managed service. The reference backend uses PostgreSQL, and the architecture supports community-contributed adapters. Maintained by AWS under the Apache 2.0 license, ExtendDB targets local development, CI testing, on‑premises deployments, and disconnected edge sites. The project is open on GitHub for contributions.

🔒 Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL now offers Extended Support minor versions 11.22-rds.20260224, 12.22-rds.20260224, and 13.23-rds.20260224. We recommend upgrading to these releases to address known security vulnerabilities and bug fixes present in prior PostgreSQL versions. Use automatic minor version upgrades during scheduled maintenance windows and the AWS Organizations Upgrade Rollout Policy to stage upgrades across accounts. Consider Blue/Green deployments with physical replication to minimize downtime when applying minor version updates.

🚦 Amazon Application Recovery Controller (ARC) Region Switch adds a Lambda event source mapping execution block to automate coordinated failover of event-driven streams across Regions. The block enables or disables Lambda event source mappings for Kinesis, DynamoDB Streams, MSK, and SQS to prevent duplicate processing. Customers can chain a disable block before an enable block, or run plans in ungraceful mode for impaired Regions. Native cross-account support lets a single plan span multiple AWS accounts.

🔁 Amazon Aurora DSQL now supports change data capture (CDC) in preview, enabling real-time streaming of database changes directly to Amazon Kinesis Data Streams. The fully managed capability captures insert, update, and delete operations as discrete change events and removes the need to build and maintain custom streaming pipelines. It is designed for zero impact on database throughput and latency, requires no infrastructure setup, and integrates with AWS Lambda and Data Firehose for downstream delivery. CDC streaming in preview is available in all Regions where Aurora DSQL is offered and is billed using Distributed Processing Units (DPUs); standard Amazon Kinesis pricing applies separately.

📢 Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL now supports minor versions 18.4, 17.10, 16.14, 15.18, and 14.23. We recommend upgrading to these latest minor versions to remediate known security vulnerabilities and benefit from community bug fixes and improvements. This release also adds postgis_topology support in PostGIS 3.6.3 for PostgreSQL 18 to model and query topological relationships. Use automatic minor upgrades, AWS Organizations Upgrade Rollout Policy, or RDS Blue/Green deployments to orchestrate large-scale, low-downtime upgrades.

🔔 Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports M8i and R8i instances with Oracle Database Standard Edition 2 (SE2) License Included. These instances use AWS-exclusive custom Intel Xeon 6 processors and deliver up to 15% better price-performance and 2.5× more memory bandwidth versus prior Intel-based generations. SE2 LI provides subscription, pay-per-use pricing that bundles Oracle license, support, compute, and the managed DB service. Customers can create LI instances via the AWS Management Console or AWS CLI and select the LI option.

🔔 Amazon RDS for MySQL now supports MySQL minor versions 8.0.46 and 8.4.9, aligning with the latest community releases. AWS recommends upgrading to address known security vulnerabilities and to benefit from bug fixes, performance improvements, and new features. You can use automatic minor version upgrades or Amazon RDS Managed Blue/Green deployments to apply updates during scheduled maintenance for safer rollouts.

🔒 The AWS Advanced JDBC Wrapper now includes a KMS Encryption plugin that provides column-level client-side encryption for Java applications. Operating at the JDBC driver, the plugin encrypts values before they reach the database and decrypts on read, keeping plaintext visible only to the application while allowing HMAC-based integrity checks. It integrates with Aurora and RDS (PostgreSQL and MySQL-compatible), Spring, Hibernate, and common connection pools without code changes, and is available as open-source under the Apache 2.0 license.

🚀Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports M8a and R8a instances powered by 5th Generation AMD EPYC processors. These instances deliver up to 70% higher throughput versus comparable x86 sizes for commonly used instance configurations, with each vCPU mapped to a physical core to provide consistent per-core performance. For high I/O workloads they offer up to 75 Gbps network and 60 Gbps Amazon EBS bandwidth and are built on the AWS Nitro System with sixth-generation Nitro Cards. RDS for SQL Server also supports the optimize CPU feature to reduce vCPU-based Microsoft SQL Server licensing charges; M8a and R8a are available in all commercial AWS Regions and can be purchased On-Demand or via Database Savings Plans.

⚡ Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports the M8i and R8i instance families, powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors exclusive to AWS. These instances deliver up to 15% better price-performance and up to 2.5x more memory bandwidth versus equivalent 7th-generation Intel instances. You can modify existing RDS SQL Server instances or create new ones via the RDS Console, AWS SDK, or CLI. Review Amazon RDS for SQL Server Pricing for regional availability before migrating.

🔁 Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports cross-account snapshot sharing for instances configured with additional storage volumes, allowing snapshots to preserve the original storage layout when shared, copied, or restored across accounts. This capability helps teams create isolated backup environments for compliance and to perform diagnostics by restoring snapshots in separate accounts. The feature is available today in all AWS commercial Regions via the Console, CLI, and SDKs.

🔁 Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports creating read replicas for database instances that use additional storage volumes. Additional volumes let customers scale database storage up to 256 TiB by attaching up to three additional volumes of up to 64 TiB each, and replicas preserve the source instance's storage layout on creation. After the initial copy, administrators can manage additional volume configurations independently on source and replica instances. The feature is available in all AWS commercial Regions and AWS GovCloud (US) and can be accessed via the AWS Management Console, AWS CLI, or AWS SDKs.

🚀 Amazon RDS for MySQL now supports the community MySQL 9.6 Innovation Release in the Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment. You can deploy MySQL 9.6 as fully managed Single‑AZ or Multi‑AZ instances on the latest-generation instance classes to evaluate new features, bug fixes, and security patches. Preview instances are retained for a maximum of 60 days and snapshots created there can only be used within the Preview Environment. Pricing for preview instances aligns with production RDS in the US East (Ohio) Region.

🚀 Amazon RDS for Db2 is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US‑East, US‑West) Regions, enabling government and regulated customers to deploy Db2 databases in the cloud quickly. The managed service automates configuration for performance and supports Multi‑AZ synchronous replication for high availability. Customers may use Bring Your Own License (BYOL) in Standard and Advanced editions and could be eligible for the Database Savings Plan; consult the documentation and pricing for details.

🔔 AWS Backup now supports Amazon Aurora point-in-time recovery (PITR) in six additional AWS Regions: Malaysia, Thailand, Taipei, New Zealand, Canada West (Calgary) and Mexico (Central). The expansion enables policy-based data protection and time-based recovery for Aurora clusters via backup plans. To protect clusters, add them to an existing or new backup plan and ensure continuous backups or PITR are enabled on the relevant backup rule. Management is available via the AWS Backup console, CLI, or SDKs.

🛡️ Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server now supports the latest General Distribution Release (GDR) updates from Microsoft for SQL Server 2019 (CU32+GDR KB5077469, RDS version 15.00.4460.4.v1) and SQL Server 2022 (CU23+GDR KB5077464, RDS version 16.00.4240.4.v1). These GDRs remediate vulnerabilities tracked as CVE-2026-21262 and CVE-2026-26115. You can apply the recommended updates using the Amazon RDS Management Console or programmatically via the AWS SDK or CLI; see the Amazon RDS Custom User Guide for upgrade guidance.

🛡️ AWS Backup now supports including Amazon Redshift Serverless namespaces and Amazon Aurora DSQL clusters directly as resource types in AWS Organizations backup policies. Organization administrators can create policy rules that explicitly target these resource types across member accounts rather than relying on tag-based selections or backing up all resources. The capability is available in all AWS Commercial and GovCloud Regions where AWS Backup and the services are offered. For implementation, consult the AWS Organizations backup policies documentation or use the AWS Backup console.

🔔 Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports the latest Microsoft cumulative updates (CU) and General Distribution Release (GDR) packages for SQL Server 2016 SP3, 2017, 2019, and 2022. The GDRs remediate security issues tracked as CVE-2026-21262 and CVE-2026-26115. AWS recommends upgrading RDS instances via the Management Console, AWS SDK, or CLI to apply these fixes. See the Microsoft KBs and the Amazon RDS SQL Server User Guide for upgrade guidance.