Amazon RDS changelog 2025
78 announcements, 2025
All Amazon RDS changes · 135 announcements since January 2025 · 3 GA · 7 previews · 1 price change · 1 deprecation · 3 Region expansions
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December 20255
Amazon RDS for MySQL announces Innovation Release 9.5 in Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment
Amazon RDS enhances observability for snapshot exports to Amazon S3
Amazon Aurora now supports PostgreSQL 18.1 in the Amazon RDS Database preview environment
Amazon RDS and Aurora now support resource tagging for Automated Backups
November 20258
AWS Organizations now supports upgrade rollout policy for Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS
Amazon RDS Optimized Reads now supports R8gd and M8gd database instances
Amazon RDS for MariaDB now supports community MariaDB minor versions 10.6.24, 10.11.15, and 11.4.9
Amazon RDS for MySQL now supports new minor versions 8.0.44 and 8.4.7
Amazon RDS Blue/Green deployments now supports Aurora Global Database
Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL supports minor versions 17.7, 16.11, 15.15, 14.20, and 13.23
October 20252
September 202510
PostgreSQL 18.0 is now available in Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment
Amazon RDS announces cross-Region and cross-account snapshot copy
Amazon RDS for MySQL announces Innovation Release 9.4 in Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment
Amazon RDS for MySQL announces Extended Support minor 5.7.44-RDS.20250818
Amazon RDS Proxy announces support for end-to-end IAM authentication
Amazon RDS Proxy now supports Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)
PostgreSQL 18 Beta RC1 is now available in Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment
August 20259
Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports Redo Transport Compression
Amazon RDS for MariaDB now supports MariaDB 11.8 with MariaDB Vector support
Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL now supports delayed read replicas
Amazon RDS io2 Block Express now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Amazon RDS for Db2 now supports cross-region automated backups for encrypted databases
Amazon RDS for MariaDB now supports community MariaDB minor versions 11.4.8, 10.11.14 and 10.6.23
Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL supports minor versions 17.6, 16.10, 15.14, 14.19, and 13.22
June 20255
Amazon RDS for MySQL announces Innovation Release 9.3 in Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment
Amazon RDS for DB2 now supports cross region standby replicas
Amazon RDS Custom now supports Cumulative Update 18 for Microsoft SQL Server 2022
Amazon RDS for MariaDB now supports community MariaDB minor versions 10.11.13 and 11.4.7
May 202513
Amazon RDS for MySQL announces Extended Support minor 5.7.44-RDS.20250508
Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle now supports R7i and M7i instances
Amazon RDS now supports easy retrieval of engine lifecycle support dates
Amazon RDS for MariaDB now supports community MariaDB minor versions 10.5.29 and 10.6.22
PostgreSQL 18 Beta 1 is now available in Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment
Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL supports minor versions 17.5, 16.9, 15.13, 14.18, and 13.21
New Open-Source AWS Advanced PostgreSQL ODBC Driver now available for Amazon Aurora and RDS
April 202510
Amazon RDS announces Cross-Region Automated Backups in five additional AWS Regions
Announcing Generation 7i instance support for Amazon RDS on AWS Outposts
Amazon RDS Proxy is now available in 3 additional AWS regions
Amazon RDS for SQL Server supports new minor versions for SQL Server 2019 and 2022
Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports M6id and R6id database instances
Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server supports new minor version for SQL Server 2019
Amazon RDS for MariaDB supports Innovation Release 11.8 in Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment
Amazon RDS Proxy is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Amazon RDS Proxy announces TLS 1.3 support for PostgreSQL on Aurora and RDS
March 20255
February 20259
Amazon RDS now provides visibility into IAM DB Authentication metrics and logs
Amazon RDS Data API for Aurora is now available in 10 additional AWS regions
Amazon RDS for MariaDB supports minors 11.4.5, 10.11.11, 10.6.21, 10.5.28
Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL supports minor versions 17.4, 16.8, 15.12, 14.17, 13.20
Amazon RDS for MySQL supports new minor versions 8.0.41 and 8.4.4
Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL supports minor versions 17.3, 16.7, 15.11, 14.16, 13.19
Amazon RDS for MySQL announces Extended Support minor 5.7.44-RDS.20250103
Amazon RDS for SQL Server supports new minor version in January 2025