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🖥️ Amazon Redshift's ODBC 2.x driver now provides native support for Apple macOS, enabling developers and analysts to connect to Redshift clusters from macOS using third-party SQL clients and applications. The native driver exposes Redshift capabilities such as data sharing write and Amazon IAM Identity Center integration that are available only through Redshift drivers. This update streamlines integration with ETL and BI tools on macOS, and Amazon recommends upgrading to the latest ODBC 2.x driver and consulting the driver documentation for installation and system requirements.

🚀 Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition now supports PostgreSQL community releases 17.7, 16.11, 15.15, 14.20, and 13.23. The update combines upstream community bug fixes and product improvements with Aurora-specific optimizations, including faster Blue/Green deployment switchovers and enhancements to Query Plan Management (QPM). These engine versions are available in all commercial AWS Regions and AWS GovCloud (US), and can be deployed or used to upgrade existing clusters via the Amazon RDS console.

🐧 Amazon WorkSpaces Applications now supports Ubuntu Pro 24.04 LTS on Elastic fleet, enabling Independent Software Vendors and central IT to stream Ubuntu desktop applications from an AWS-managed, serverless pool. Elastic fleet removes the need for capacity planning, scaling policies, or image creation. Administrators can enable the feature via the WorkSpaces Applications console and choose supported AWS Regions; pricing is pay-as-you-go.

🚀 Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition now supports PostgreSQL 18.1 in the Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment, enabling evaluation of the new engine on Aurora without self-installation or manual provisioning. PostgreSQL 18.1, released September 9, 2025, adds skip scan for multicolumn B-tree indexes, improved WHERE handling for OR/IN, parallel GIN index builds, and join enhancements. Observability gains include buffer usage counts, index lookup details, and a per-connection I/O utilization metric. Preview clusters are retained up to 60 days and are priced the same as production Aurora instances in the US East (Ohio) Region.

🔖 Amazon Web Services now supports resource tagging for automated backups and cluster automated backups in Amazon RDS and Aurora. You can tag automated backups independently from the parent DB instance or DB cluster using the AWS Management Console, API, or SDK. Use these tags with IAM policies to implement attribute-based access control and to organize, manage, and track backup costs. This capability is available in all AWS Regions, including AWS GovCloud (US).

🆕 Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports SQL Server 2022 Developer Edition, enabling teams to run a feature-complete, free edition of SQL Server in non-production RDS instances. The Developer Edition includes all Enterprise features for building, testing, and demonstrating applications while reducing licensing costs for development and test environments. Core RDS capabilities — automated backups, automated software updates, monitoring, and encryption — are supported on Developer Edition. The license is strictly limited to development and testing and may not be used in production or for commercial end-user scenarios.

🔧Amazon RDS for SQL Server introduces an Optimize CPU option with support for M7i and R7i instance families, lowering prices by up to 55% compared with equivalent sixth‑generation instances. Optimize CPU disables SMT on instances with two or more physical CPU cores to halve vCPU counts and associated third‑party licensing charges while preserving the same number of physical cores and near‑equivalent performance. The biggest savings appear on 2Xlarge and larger sizes and on Multi‑AZ deployments; memory‑ or I/O‑intensive workloads can be further tuned to reduce costs.

🔔Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle and SQL Server now supports up to 256 TiB of storage per database instance — a fourfold increase in per-instance capacity. Customers can attach up to three additional 64 TiB storage volumes alongside the primary volume and add, scale, or remove those volumes without application downtime. Administrators can mix high-performance Provisioned IOPS SSD (io2) volumes with cost-optimized gp3 volumes to balance performance and cost. Additional storage volumes can be created or managed via the AWS Management Console, AWS CLI, or SDKs and are available in all commercial and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions.

🚀 Today AWS introduced Database Savings Plans, a flexible pricing model that offers up to 35% savings in exchange for a one-year commitment measured in $/hour with no upfront payment. Discounts apply automatically to eligible serverless and provisioned usage across engines, instance families, sizes, deployment options, and Regions. The offer supports Amazon Aurora, Amazon RDS, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon ElastiCache, Amazon DocumentDB, Amazon Neptune, Amazon Keyspaces, Amazon Timestream, and AWS DMS. Database Savings Plans are available now in all AWS Regions except China and can be purchased from the Billing console or via the AWS CLI.

🔒 Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition now supports PostgreSQL 17.6, 16.10, 15.14, 14.19, and 13.22, bringing community fixes plus Aurora-specific enhancements. The release introduces database-level Dynamic Data Masking (DDM) for 16.10 and 17.6 to mask sensitive column values at query time using role-based policies without altering stored data. Additional updates include a shared plan cache, improved performance and recovery-time-objective (RTO), and more reliable Global Database switchovers. New clusters can be created in the Amazon RDS console or existing databases upgraded; releases are available across all commercial AWS Regions and AWS GovCloud (US).

🔒 Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition now supports minor PostgreSQL releases 17.6, 16.10, 15.14, 14.19, and 13.22. The update introduces Dynamic Data Masking (DDM) for versions 16.10 and 17.6, masking column values at query time via role-based policies without changing stored data. It also adds a shared plan cache and delivers improved performance, faster RTO, and better Global Database switchover behavior. These versions are available in all commercial AWS Regions and AWS GovCloud (US); you can create new clusters or upgrade existing databases through the RDS console.

🔔 AWS Organizations now supports an upgrade rollout policy for Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS, enabling staggered automatic minor version upgrades across accounts and resources. Administrators can define simple sequences (first, second, last) via account-level policies or resource tags so upgrades begin in development and progress to production only after validation. AWS Health notifications between phases, built-in validation periods, and the ability to pause progression provide control and observability. The feature is available in all commercial Regions and AWS GovCloud (US); RDS for Oracle support applies to engine versions released after January 2026.

🔧 Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports resource governor, enabling customers to manage CPU, memory, and I/O allocation across workloads on Enterprise Edition instances. RDS exposes stored procedures for configuring resource pools, workload groups, and classifier functions so administrators can isolate resource‑intensive queries and maintain predictable performance. This feature is available in all AWS Regions where RDS for SQL Server is offered.

📢 Amazon RDS for Oracle now offers Oracle Database Standard Edition 2 (SE2) License Included on R7i and M7i instances in the Asia Pacific (Taipei) region. Launched Nov 21, 2025, these License Included instances remove the need to purchase separate Oracle Database licenses and are available through the AWS Management Console, AWS CLI, and SDKs. There are no separate license or support charges. Review the Rethink Oracle Standard Edition Two on Amazon RDS for Oracle blog and Amazon RDS pricing for cost and regional availability.

🤖 AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) Schema Conversion now supports conversions from SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) to both Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL and Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL. The integrated generative AI capability helps automatically translate complex database code such as stored procedures, functions, triggers, cursors, and other ASE-specific constructs that traditionally require manual conversion. Schema Conversion also provides detailed assessment reports to help migration teams plan, estimate effort, and reduce risk when executing migrations to PostgreSQL-compatible managed databases on AWS.

🔔 Amazon RDS for SQL Server Web Edition now supports Multi‑AZ deployments, providing web‑focused workloads with built‑in high availability and automated failover to a standby replica in a separate Availability Zone. Customers enable the feature by selecting the Multi‑AZ option when configuring their RDS instance; RDS synchronously replicates data and handles failover automatically. This removes the need to move to more expensive SQL Server editions for HA—check pricing and regional availability in the RDS documentation.

🆕 Amazon DynamoDB now supports composite primary keys composed of up to eight attributes in global secondary indexes. Partition and sort keys can each include up to four attributes, removing the need to create synthetic concatenated keys and perform backfills. Multi-attribute keys improve data distribution and uniqueness while enabling left-to-right filtering on sort key attributes. The capability is available at no extra cost across all AWS Regions and can be created via the Console, CLI, SDKs, or API.

🚀 Amazon RDS now supports R8gd and M8gd instances for Optimized Reads on Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL and RDS for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB, offering improved price-performance. Optimized Reads uses local NVMe-based SSDs to store ephemeral data (temporary tables and evicted pages) to reduce network I/O and boost read latency and throughput. AWS reports up to 165% better throughput and up to 120% better price-performance on R8gd versus R6g for Aurora PostgreSQL. These instances are available in select US, Europe, and Asia Pacific regions and can be enabled via the Console, CLI, or SDK.

🔔 Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports the Oracle October 2025 Release Update (RU) for 19c and 21c, and the corresponding Spatial Patch Bundle for 19c. AWS recommends upgrading because the RU includes six new security patches for Oracle database products, and the Spatial Patch Bundle provides important fixes and performance improvements for Oracle Spatial and Graph. You can apply the RU from the Amazon RDS Management Console or programmatically via the AWS SDK or CLI, and enable Automatic Minor Version Upgrade to install updates during your maintenance window. To deploy the Spatial Patch Bundle, select the 'Spatial Patch Bundle Engine Versions' checkbox when creating new instances or upgrade existing instances to engine version '19.0.0.0.ru-2025-10.spb-1.r1'.

🔔 Amazon RDS for MariaDB now supports community minor versions 10.6.24, 10.11.15, and 11.4.9. Customers are recommended to upgrade to these latest minor releases to address known security vulnerabilities and gain bug fixes, performance improvements, and new community features. You can enable automatic minor version upgrades or use Amazon RDS Managed Blue/Green deployments to apply updates during scheduled maintenance windows. See the Amazon RDS User Guide for upgrade and deployment details.