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🔁 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.

🚀 Amazon RDS for MySQL now supports the community MySQL 9.5 Innovation Release in the Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment, enabling customers to evaluate the latest innovation release on managed RDS instances. You can deploy Single‑AZ or Multi‑AZ instances on current‑generation instance classes; preview instances are retained for up to 60 days and snapshots are limited to the Preview Environment. Preview instances are priced the same as production RDS in the US East (Ohio) Region.

🔔 Amazon RDS now provides enhanced observability for snapshot exports to Amazon S3, delivering per-task insights on export progress, failures, and performance. The update adds four new event types, including current export progress and table-level notifications for long-running tables, and reports exported and pending table counts and data sizes. You can subscribe to events via AWS SNS and view export status in the AWS Console, CLI, or SDK. This capability is available for RDS PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB in Commercial Regions.

🔁 Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB now provides a restart API for both InfluxDB 2 and InfluxDB 3, enabling customers to trigger instance restarts via the AWS Management Console, API, or CLI. The capability supports resilience testing and direct remediation of health-related issues without requiring support intervention. It is designed to give DevOps teams greater operational flexibility for mission-critical time-series workloads and is available in all Regions where the service is offered.

🖥️ 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.