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🔒 Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition 8.4 now supports MySQL 8.4.8, introducing security enhancements and bug fixes plus features such as post-quantum TLS (PQ-TLS) key exchange, transaction timeout, multi-source replication, and delayed replication. These additions strengthen in-transit encryption options and improve operational resilience by preventing long-running transaction impacts and enabling consolidated or lagged replicas for recovery and reporting. Upgrades are available via automatic minor version upgrades during scheduled maintenance and supported across all AWS Regions where Aurora MySQL is offered.

📢 Amazon Aurora MySQL now supports multi-source replication and delayed replication, enabling consolidation of multiple MySQL sources into a single Aurora cluster and intentional replica lag for protection against human error and logical corruption. Multi-source replication simplifies merging shards or aggregating regional and departmental databases into a central cluster for reporting and backups. Delayed replication allows a binlog replica to intentionally lag, letting you stop replication and promote the replica to recover quickly from harmful changes without a full restore. These features are available on Aurora MySQL 8.4.8+ in all Regions where Aurora MySQL is offered.

🛠️ Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports 18 additional SQL trace flags that administrators can enable via database parameter groups. These flags adjust engine behaviors like cardinality estimation, lock escalation, statistics management, and memory handling to help optimize and stabilize workloads. AWS recommends testing changes in non-production environments before applying them broadly, as some flags may affect performance or memory usage.

🛠️ Amazon CloudWatch Database Insights now supports monitoring of self-managed PostgreSQL instances alongside Amazon RDS and Aurora. Use the Amazon CloudWatch agent to collect health and performance metrics from PostgreSQL running on EC2, and view live database load, wait event analysis, query-level statistics, and host metrics in the Database Insights fleet view. This feature is available in all AWS Commercial Regions and uses the same Database Insights console and workflows familiar to AWS-managed database users.

🛡️ Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server now supports the latest Cumulative Update (CU) and General Distribution Release (GDR) packages. This update includes SQL Server 2019 CU32+GDR (RDS 15.00.4480.2.v1) and SQL Server 2022 CU25+GDR (RDS 16.00.4262.2.v1). The GDRs address vulnerabilities such as CVE-2026-47295, CVE-2026-47296, CVE-2026-54118, and CVE-2026-55002. You can apply these updates via the Amazon RDS console, AWS SDK, or CLI.

🔔 Amazon Redshift now reads from and writes to Apache Iceberg v3 tables in your data lake, adding support for default column values, row lineage, and deletion vectors. Default column values simplify schema evolution by providing initial values when none are supplied. Row lineage exposes pseudo-columns for row identity and update sequence, enabling incremental and CDC workflows. Deletion vectors use compact compressed bitmaps to replace positional delete files, improving read/write performance for frequent updates and deletes.

🚀Amazon Aurora Serverless now delivers up to 30% better performance and improved scaling across additional AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (New Zealand), Asia Pacific (Thailand), Africa (Cape Town), Europe (Milan), and Mexico (Central). These upgrades apply to both Aurora PostgreSQL and Aurora MySQL and are provided in platform version 4 at no extra cost. New clusters and restores launch on platform version 4 automatically; existing clusters can upgrade via maintenance actions, restart, or blue/green deployments.

🚀 Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition 3 now supports MySQL 8.0.45, bringing community fixes and Aurora-specific improvements. You can upgrade during scheduled maintenance windows using automatic minor version upgrades and the AWS Organizations Upgrade Rollout Policy to orchestrate phased upgrades across clusters. Upgrades may be done in-place or via snapshot restore, and this release is supported in all Regions where Aurora MySQL is available.

🔒 Amazon Aurora DSQL now supports defining FOREIGN KEY constraints on new and existing tables. This serverless, distributed SQL database with PostgreSQL compatibility and active-active multi-Region availability enforces referential integrity so writes that would create invalid references are rejected. Developers can choose delete/update behaviors: NO ACTION, RESTRICT, CASCADE, SET NULL, and SET DEFAULT. The feature is available in all Regions where Aurora DSQL is offered.

🔔 Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL now supports minor releases 18.6, 17.11, 16.15, 15.19, and 14.24. We recommend upgrading to these versions to address prior CVEs and to benefit from community bug fixes and improvements. You can apply upgrades during scheduled maintenance with automatic minor version upgrades, and orchestrate phased rollouts using AWS Organizations Upgrade Rollout Policy. Use Blue/Green deployments to minimize downtime for upgrades.

🔔 Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports the latest Microsoft cumulative update: SQL Server 2025 CU6 (KB5093421) as RDS version 17.00.4055.5.v1. This update brings the fixes and improvements detailed in Microsoft's KB5093421. AWS recommends upgrading RDS instances using the Amazon RDS Management Console, AWS SDK, or CLI. Refer to the Amazon RDS SQL Server User Guide for detailed upgrade instructions.

🛈 Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports the Oracle July 2026 Release Update (RU) for Oracle Database versions 19c, 21c, and 26ai. The update includes security fixes and a revised naming format for 19c RUs: 19.0.0.0.ru-2026-07.mrp-2026-07.r1. You can apply the RU via the RDS console, AWS SDK/CLI, or enable Automatic Minor Version Upgrade. AWS Organizations upgrade rollout policy can stagger and validate upgrades across environments.

🔔 Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition now supports PostgreSQL 18.4, 17.10, 16.14, 15.18, and 14.23 bringing community bug fixes and Aurora-specific improvements. Automatic minor version upgrades can be applied during scheduled maintenance windows and can be orchestrated across accounts using the AWS Organizations Upgrade Rollout Policy. Enable automatic upgrades to address known CVEs and simplify large-scale operations. Aurora continues to offer high performance, global resilience, serverless scale-to-zero compute, and improved I/O price-performance.

🚀 Starting today, Amazon RDS for MySQL supports community MySQL minor version 8.4.11, which includes operational improvements and introduces post-quantum TLS (PQ-TLS) key exchange for enhanced in-transit encryption options. AWS recommends upgrading to newer minor versions to receive CVE fixes, performance improvements, and bug fixes provided by the MySQL community. You can use automatic minor version upgrades during maintenance windows or Amazon RDS Managed Blue/Green deployments for safer updates.

⚙️ Amazon launches the RDS Switchover Read Replica execution block for ARC Region switch to automate recovery orchestration for Amazon RDS databases using Oracle Data Guard in multi-Region workloads. The feature automates role reversal or promotion between primary and read replica to enable zero data loss in planned failovers and rapid recovery in unplanned events. It includes native cross-account support for centralized recovery management.

🔧 Amazon CloudWatch pipelines now includes three new processors: an Amazon RDS log parser, an XML parser, and a GeoIP enrichment processor. These processors parse and enrich logs as they are ingested, turning RDS Aurora audit and error logs into structured fields, converting XML strings into JSON, and adding geographic context to IP addresses. They are available at no extra charge where CloudWatch pipelines is GA; standard ingestion and storage rates still apply.

🆕 Amazon RDS now supports PostgreSQL 19 Beta 3 in the Database Preview Environment, enabling evaluation of the pre-release on RDS. The Beta 3 release introduces features for query performance and autovacuum management, including pg_stat_autovacuum_scores, parallel autovacuum workers, pg_plan_advice, and eager aggregation, plus bug fixes and stability improvements. Preview instances are retained up to 60 days and snapshots remain limited to the Preview Environment.

🔔 Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports Oracle Application Express (APEX) 26.1, a low-code platform for building secure, scalable enterprise applications. This managed database service simplifies setup, operation, and scaling of Oracle Database deployments in the cloud. APEX 26.1 is available in all AWS regions where RDS for Oracle is offered; consult the RDS documentation for details on enabling or modifying APEX options.

🚀 Amazon RDS for MariaDB now supports the MariaDB 12.3 Long-Term Support release, starting with minor version 12.3.2. This update brings Oracle-compatible TO_DATE(), an IS JSON predicate for native JSON validation, and optimizer improvements for LEFT JOIN and RANGE partition scans. Upgrades can be performed via Blue/Green Deployments, in-place upgrades, or snapshot restore, and migrations are supported through AWS Database Migration Service.

🔍 Amazon RDS now surfaces the initialization status of storage volumes created from snapshots, enabling customers to know when restored or converted instances reach full performance. The new StorageOperationStatus and StorageOperationPercentProgress fields are available in the RDS Console and the DescribeDBInstances API, showing initialization and optimization progress in real time. This visibility helps you schedule latency-sensitive workloads appropriately and is available by default in all commercial and US GovCloud Regions via console, CLI, or SDKs.