Amazon Aurora Updates

Amazon Aurora MySQL 8.4.10 is now generally available

Amazon Aurora MySQL has been updated to 8.4.10, adding support for GTID tags and up to 50,000 simultaneous connections per DB instance

Amazon Aurora MySQL 3.14 (compatible with MySQL 8.0.46) is generally available

Amazon Aurora MySQL 3.14 now supports MySQL 8.0.46, including post-quantum TLS for encrypting data in-transit and operational improvements. Available in all AWS Regions.

Amazon Aurora now supports post-quantum TLS key exchange

Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition introduces support for post-quantum TLS key exchange, enabling post-quantum cryptography options for encrypting data in transit. PostgreSQL versions 18 and higher allow modification of the ssl_groups parameter from the Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL allow list.

Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS now support On-Demand Capacity Reservations

Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS now offer On-Demand Capacity Reservations, ensuring DB instance capacity is available for critical events like migrations, product launches, and disaster recovery.

• Amazon RDS

AWS Advanced Ruby Driver Wrapper is generally available

AWS Advanced Ruby Driver Wrapper is now generally available for Amazon RDS and Aurora PostgreSQL and MySQL-compatible databases, reducing failover times and improving application availability.

• Amazon RDS

Aurora PostgreSQL now supports querying of Apache Iceberg and Parquet data

Aurora PostgreSQL now allows direct querying of Apache Iceberg and Parquet data in data lakes using existing PostgreSQL applications and tools, eliminating the need for ETL pipelines or data duplication.

Amazon Aurora and RDS now support AMD-based R8a instances

Amazon Aurora and RDS now support R8a database instances powered by 5th generation AMD EPYC processors, expanding options for database workloads. Each vCPU corresponds to a physical CPU core, delivering consistent per-core performance.

• Amazon RDS

Amazon Aurora serverless now scales faster to support agentic AI and other bursty workloads

Amazon Aurora serverless now scales up to 256 ACUs in larger steps and automatically scales down to zero after workload completion, making it ideal for agentic AI applications with bursty activity and unpredictable traffic

Amazon Aurora now supports PostgreSQL 18.6, 17.11, 16.15, 15.19, and 14.24

Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition now supports PostgreSQL versions 18.6, 17.11, 16.15, 15.19, and 14.24, including bug fixes and Aurora-specific enhancements. Automatic minor version upgrades simplify large-scale operations.

• Amazon RDS

Amazon Aurora MySQL 8.4.8 now generally available

Amazon Aurora MySQL now supports MySQL 8.4.8, adding PQ-TLS, transaction timeout, multi-source replication, and delayed replication features

Amazon Aurora serverless now available with 30% better performance and smarter scaling in additional AWS Regions

Amazon Aurora serverless delivers up to 30% better performance and enhanced scaling, now available in new regions including Asia Pacific (New Zealand), Asia Pacific (Thailand), Africa (Cape Town), Europe (Milan), and Mexico (Central).

Amazon Aurora MySQL 3.13 (compatible with MySQL 8.0.45) is generally available

Amazon Aurora MySQL now supports MySQL 8.0.45, including community fixes and Aurora-specific improvements

Amazon Aurora now supports PostgreSQL 18.4, 17.10, 16.14, 15.18, and 14.23

Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL adds support for new versions with bug fixes and performance improvements

• Amazon RDS

Amazon Aurora serverless now scales faster to support agentic AI and other bursty workloads

Amazon Aurora serverless now reaches up to 12 ACUs within a second during scale-up events and scales down to zero after workload completion, ideal for agentic AI applications with bursty activity patterns

AWS Transform for full-stack Windows modernization now supports offline schema transformation to Aurora PostgreSQL

AWS Transform now generally available for offline source transformation, enabling customers to modernize Microsoft SQL Server databases to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL without live database connections. This allows direct upload of DDL files, assessment of complexity, and generation of customizable transformation plans.

Amazon RDS and Aurora expand R8gd and M8gd to additional Regions

Amazon RDS and Aurora now support R8gd and M8gd instances in additional regions, improving performance for complex queries and index rebuild operations

Amazon Aurora now supports PostgreSQL major version 18

Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition now supports PostgreSQL major version 18, bringing performance improvements and new extension pg_roaringbitmap