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🔄 Amazon Relational Database Service now supports the latest Cumulative Update, CU23 (KB5078297), for SQL Server 2022 on Amazon RDS for SQL Server. We recommend that customers upgrade affected RDS instances to apply this update to obtain fixes and improvements. You can perform the upgrade through the Amazon RDS Management Console or programmatically using the AWS SDK or CLI, and consult the Amazon RDS SQL Server User Guide for detailed upgrade instructions.

🚀 Amazon Web Services has added single-Region Amazon Aurora DSQL clusters in Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Canada (Central), and Canada West (Calgary). Aurora DSQL is a serverless, distributed SQL database that provides virtually unlimited scalability, high availability, and zero infrastructure management. The service emphasizes the fastest distributed SQL reads and writes to support always-available applications. Aurora DSQL is available in multiple other Regions and can be explored under the AWS Free Tier via the product documentation.

🔁 Amazon RDS for MariaDB now supports community minor versions 10.6.25, 10.11.16, 11.4.10, and 11.8.6. We recommend upgrading to the latest minor releases to remediate known security vulnerabilities and gain bug fixes, performance improvements, and new features contributed by the MariaDB community. You can enable automatic minor version upgrades to apply updates during scheduled maintenance windows or use Amazon RDS Managed Blue/Green deployments for safer, lower-risk updates.

🔁 AWS now supports managed minor version upgrades for Aurora Global Database, enabling you to upgrade an entire global topology with minimal downtime. Administrators can initiate upgrades from the AWS Management Console, SDK, or CLI and have all regional clusters automatically moved to the chosen minor version. This eliminates manual per-cluster upgrades and reduces operational overhead for global cluster management. The capability currently supports Aurora PostgreSQL-compatible engines and is available in all commercial AWS Regions and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions.

🔗 Amazon has introduced an enhanced console experience for Amazon RDS that consolidates connection details and tools into a single, context-aware view. The interface generates ready-made code snippets for Java, Python, Node.js and command-line utilities like psql, and automatically adapts snippets to the database's authentication settings (for example, using token-based connections when IAM authentication is enabled). It also embeds CloudShell for direct in-console access and is available for Aurora and RDS engines across all commercial AWS Regions.

🌐Amazon RDS now supports IPv6 for VPC endpoints of the RDS Service APIs, enabling dual‑stack (IPv4 and IPv6) connectivity directly within your VPC without traversing the internet. This change expands address capacity, lets you assign contiguous IPv6 ranges to microservices, and provides a safer, phased migration path from IPv4. The feature is available in all commercial AWS regions and AWS GovCloud (US).

🚀 Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports cross-Region replicas configured with additional storage volumes, enabling customers to attach up to three extra volumes of up to 64 TiB each alongside the primary storage. When you create a cross-Region replica, RDS automatically mirrors the same storage layout on the replica, and you can modify volumes on primary and replica via the AWS Management Console, AWS CLI, or AWS SDK without application downtime. This enhancement lets organizations scale database capacity up to 256 TiB and supports promotion or switchover of replicas to meet low RPO and RTO for business-critical workloads.

🔁 Amazon DynamoDB multi-Region strong consistency (MRSC) global tables now integrate with AWS Fault Injection Service (FIS), enabling teams to run controlled experiments that pause regional replication to observe application behavior. You can create realistic regional-failure scenarios to validate monitoring, recovery, and resiliency mechanisms. This capability helps tune alarms, failover logic, and operational runbooks before real outages occur. Support is available in multiple AWS Regions and documentation outlines how to get started.

🚀 Amazon Web Services has made R6id memory-optimized database instances generally available for Amazon RDS running PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB in the Tel Aviv region. R6gd instances are now supported for the same engines in Asia Pacific (Osaka) and EU regions (Spain, Zurich). Graviton2-based instances can deliver up to 40% better performance than R5 equivalents, while R6gd adds local NVMe block storage and R6id offers 58% more TB per vCPU and approximately 15% improved price-performance versus R5d. Instances can be launched via the RDS console or AWS CLI; consult the RDS/Aurora documentation for engine-version support and the pricing page for regional costs.

🛡️ Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports native differential and transaction log restores for instances configured with Multi‑AZ and same‑region read replicas. This removes the prior requirement to convert instances to Single‑AZ before performing differential or log restores. Customers can reduce restore time while maintaining Multi‑AZ high availability and preserving Read Replica read capacity. The feature is available in all Regions where RDS for SQL Server is offered.

🔔 Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports bare metal instances with Bring Your Own License (BYOL) for Oracle Standard Edition 2. Supported bare metal families include M7i, R7i, X2iedn, X2idn, X2iezn, M6i, M6id, M6in, R6i, R6id, and R6in, offered at a 25% lower price than equivalent virtualized instances. Bare metal provides full visibility into CPU cores and sockets, which may reduce licensing and support costs—consult your legal or licensing partner to confirm eligibility. Bare metal is also available for Oracle Enterprise Edition under BYOL; check RDS pricing and region availability for specific configurations.

🔁 Amazon RDS Blue/Green Deployments now provide faster switchover for single-Region configurations, typically reducing writer-node downtime to five seconds or lower. Applications using the AWS Advanced JDBC Driver typically see cutovers of two seconds or lower because DNS propagation delays are avoided. The enhancement supports Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS engines — including PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB — in all AWS Regions, and you can apply changes such as major engine upgrades, maintenance updates, and instance scaling via the Amazon RDS Console or CLI in a few clicks.

🚀 Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL, Amazon Aurora DSQL, and Amazon DynamoDB serverless databases are now accessible directly from v0 by Vercel, letting developers build full-stack applications and connect to AWS databases using natural language prompts. v0 provides an end-to-end setup experience to create or link AWS accounts, with new accounts receiving access to all three databases and $100 USD in credits. Serverless options scale to zero and are available in seven AWS Regions, reducing operational overhead for prototypes and production AI-driven applications.

🔔 Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports Microsoft SQL Server GDR updates for 2016 SP3, 2017 CU31, 2019 CU32 and 2022 CU22 (RDS versions 13.00.6475.1.v1, 14.00.3515.1.v1, 15.00.4455.2.1.v1, 16.00.4225.2.1.v1). These GDRs address vulnerabilities tracked as CVE-2025-59499. We recommend upgrading instances via the Amazon RDS Console, SDK, or CLI and consult the RDS SQL Server upgrade guide to plan and apply the updates.

🔒 Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server now supports the latest General Distribution Release (GDR) updates, enabling SQL Server 2019 CU32+GDR (KB5068404) and SQL Server 2022 CU21+GDR (KB5068406) on managed instances. These releases correspond to RDS builds 15.00.4455.2.1.v1 and 16.00.4222.2.1.v1 and address vulnerabilities referenced by CVE-2025-59499. We recommend that you upgrade affected RDS Custom instances using the Amazon RDS Management Console, AWS SDK, or CLI and consult the Amazon RDS Custom User Guide for upgrade procedures. Before applying updates in production, review release notes and test the patches in non-production environments to validate application compatibility and backups.

🔒 Amazon VPC IPAM now supports centrally managed IP allocation policies for RDS instances and ALB resources, enabling administrators to enforce public IP assignment rules. The policies cover RDS, Application Load Balancers, NAT Gateways in regional mode, and Elastic IPs and cannot be overridden by application teams, improving compliance. Available in all AWS commercial and GovCloud (US) Regions, the capability is offered in both IPAM Free and Advanced tiers; the Advanced tier supports cross-account and cross-region policy application.

🔔 Amazon Neptune now supports Graviton3-based R7g and Graviton4-based R8g instances in new regions: Asia Pacific (Hong Kong, Osaka, Singapore), Canada (Central) and US West (N. California). R7g introduces the first DDR5-equipped AWS database instances with up to 30 Gbps enhanced networking and up to 20 Gbps to Amazon EBS, while R8g offers larger sizes (up to 48xlarge) and an 8:1 memory-to-vCPU ratio. Graviton4 delivers up to 40% faster database performance versus Graviton3, and both families are priced about 16% lower than R6g. Customers can launch or upgrade via the AWS Management Console or CLI for Neptune engine versions 1.4.5 and above.

🔔 Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL now offers Extended Support minor releases 12.22-rds.20251114 and 11.22-rds.20251114, which include critical security and bug fixes addressing vulnerabilities present in earlier versions. We recommend upgrading to these releases to reduce exposure and maintain supportability after community maintenance ends. Extended Support provides up to three additional years of critical fixes after a major version’s standard support expiry, giving teams more time to plan major upgrades. These updates are available in all commercial and government regions and can be applied automatically via automatic minor version upgrades during scheduled maintenance windows.

🆕 Amazon Lightsail now offers two larger managed database bundles with up to 8 vCPUs, 32 GB memory, and 960 GB SSD storage. The new bundles are offered in both standard and high‑availability plans and support managed MySQL and PostgreSQL engines. They target production workloads and data‑intensive applications—such as e‑commerce, content management systems, business intelligence, and SaaS—by delivering increased storage and processing capacity. These sizes are available in all AWS Regions where Lightsail is provided.

🔁 Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports cross-region read replicas in 16 additional AWS Regions. Customers can place read-only replicas closer to users to reduce latency and scale out read workloads while maintaining a centralized primary for writes. Because read replicas can be promoted to standalone databases, they can also be used as part of disaster recovery and regional failover strategies. Each primary database can have up to fifteen read replicas across same or different regions.