Amazon Aurora changelog
65 announcements since January 2025 · 10 GA · 1 price change · 3 Region expansions
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November 20262
October 20265
Adds post-quantum TLS key exchange with configurable ssl_groups parameter on version 18 and higher
Maximum capacity rises 50% to 384 ACUs for Aurora PostgreSQL, up from 256
ML-based detection of data exfiltration and destruction in Aurora and RDS for PostgreSQL
Reduces switchover and failover times for RDS and Aurora PostgreSQL and MySQLGA
September 20266
Scales up to 16 ACUs within a second, up to 256 ACUs, on platform versions 3 and 4
R8a instances on 5th generation AMD EPYC, up to 75 Gbps network bandwidth, in 9 Regions
Query Apache Iceberg and Parquet data via foreign tables, without ETL, at no extra chargeGA
Adds support for PostgreSQL 18.6, 17.11, 16.15, 15.19 and 14.24
Adds post-quantum TLS, transaction timeout, multi-source and delayed replicationGA
Adds multi-source and delayed replication on version 8.4.8 and higher
August 20265
Up to 30% better performance and improved scaling in 5 more RegionsRegion
Supports MySQL 8.0.45 with community fixes and Aurora-specific improvementsGA
Adds PostgreSQL versions 18.4, 17.10, 16.14, 15.18 and 14.23
Reaches up to 12 ACUs within a second on scale-up, up to 256 ACUs
Offline SQL Server to Aurora PostgreSQL schema transformation from uploaded DDL filesGA