Your MySQL 5.7 and PostgreSQL 11 databases will be automatically enrolled into Amazon RDS Extended Support

Right this moment, we’re asserting that your MySQL 5.7 and PostgreSQL 11 database situations operating on Amazon Aurora and Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) will likely be robotically enrolled into Amazon RDS Prolonged Help beginning on February 29, 2024.

It will assist keep away from unplanned downtime and compatibility points that may come up with robotically upgrading to a brand new main model. This gives you with extra management over if you need to improve the key model of your database.

This automated enrollment might imply that you’ll expertise greater fees when RDS Prolonged Help begins. You may keep away from these fees by upgrading your database to a more moderen DB model earlier than the beginning of RDS Prolonged Help.

What’s Amazon RDS Prolonged Help?
In September 2023, we introduced Amazon RDS Prolonged Help, which lets you proceed operating your database on a serious engine model previous its RDS finish of ordinary assist date on Amazon Aurora or Amazon RDS at a further price.

Till neighborhood finish of life (EoL), the MySQL and PostgreSQL open supply communities handle widespread vulnerabilities and exposures (CVE) identification, patch era, and bug fixes for the respective engines. The communities launch a brand new minor model each quarter containing these safety patches and bug fixes till the database main model reaches neighborhood finish of life. After the neighborhood finish of life date, CVE patches or bug fixes are not accessible and the neighborhood considers these engines unsupported. For instance, MySQL 5.7 and PostgreSQL 11 are not supported by the communities as of October and November 2023 respectively. We’re grateful to the communities for his or her continued assist of those main variations and a clear course of and timeline for transitioning to the most recent main model.

With RDS Prolonged Help, Amazon Aurora and RDS takes on engineering the essential CVE patches and bug fixes for as much as three years past a serious model’s neighborhood EoL. For these three years, Amazon Aurora and RDS will work to establish CVEs and bugs within the engine, generate patches and launch them to you as rapidly as potential. Below RDS Prolonged Help, we’ll proceed to supply assist, such that the open supply neighborhood’s finish of assist for an engine’s main model doesn’t go away your functions uncovered to essential safety vulnerabilities or unresolved bugs.

You would possibly surprise why we’re charging for RDS Prolonged Help moderately than offering it as a part of the RDS service. It’s as a result of the engineering work for sustaining safety and performance of neighborhood EoL engines requires AWS to speculate developer sources for essential CVE patches and bug fixes. Because of this RDS Prolonged Help is just charging prospects who want the extra flexibility to remain on a model previous neighborhood EoL.

RDS Prolonged Help could also be helpful that will help you meet your small business necessities on your functions in case you have explicit dependencies on a selected MySQL or PostgreSQL main model, equivalent to compatibility with sure plugins or customized options. If you’re at the moment operating on-premises database servers or self-managed Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) situations, you possibly can migrate to Amazon Aurora MySQL-Appropriate Version, Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Appropriate Version, Amazon RDS for MySQL, Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL past the neighborhood EoL date, and proceed to make use of these variations these variations with RDS Prolonged Help whereas benefiting from a managed service. If it is advisable migrate many databases, you may as well make the most of RDS Prolonged Help to separate your migration into phases, guaranteeing a clean transition with out overwhelming IT sources.

In 2024, RDS Prolonged Help will likely be accessible for RDS for MySQL main variations 5.7 and better, RDS for PostgreSQL main variations 11 and better, Aurora MySQL-compatible model 2 and better, and Aurora PostgreSQL-compatible model 11 and better. For an inventory of all future supported variations, see Supported MySQL main variations on Amazon RDS and Amazon Aurora main variations within the AWS documentation.

Word: RDS Prolonged Help for PostgreSQL 11 begins on March 1, 2024, however is not going to be charged till April 1, 2024. Between March 1 and March 31, all PostgreSQL 11 situations on Aurora and RDS are coated underneath RDS Prolonged Help. RDS Prolonged Help for Aurora MySQL 2 begins on November 1, 2024, however is not going to be charged till December 1, 2024. Between November 1 and November 30, all Aurora MySQL 2 clusters are coated underneath RDS Prolonged Help.

RDS Prolonged Help is priced per vCPU per hour. Study extra about pricing particulars and timelines for RDS Prolonged Help at Amazon Aurora pricing, RDS for MySQL pricing, and RDS for PostgreSQL pricing. For extra info, see the weblog posts about Amazon RDS Prolonged Help for MySQL and PostgreSQL databases within the AWS Database Weblog.

Why are we robotically enrolling all databases to Amazon RDS Prolonged Help?
We had initially knowledgeable you that RDS Prolonged Help would offer the opt-in APIs and console options in December 2023. In that announcement, we stated that should you determined to not decide your database in to RDS Prolonged Help, it will robotically improve to a more moderen engine model beginning on March 1, 2024. For instance, you’d be upgraded from Aurora MySQL 2 or RDS for MySQL 5.7 to Aurora MySQL three or RDS for MySQL eight.zero and from Aurora PostgreSQL 11 or RDS for PostgreSQL 11 to Aurora PostgreSQL 15 and RDS for PostgreSQL 15, respectively.

Nevertheless, we heard numerous suggestions from prospects that these automated upgrades might trigger their functions to expertise breaking adjustments and different unpredictable habits between main variations of neighborhood DB engines. For instance, an unplanned main model improve might introduce compatibility points or downtime if functions aren’t prepared for MySQL eight.zero or PostgreSQL 15.

Computerized enrollment in RDS Prolonged Help offers you extra time and extra management to arrange, plan, and check your database upgrades by yourself timeline, offering you flexibility on when to transition to new main variations whereas persevering with to obtain essential safety and bug fixes from AWS.

For those who’re apprehensive about elevated prices on account of automated enrollment in RDS Prolonged Help, you possibly can keep away from RDS Prolonged Help and related fees by upgrading earlier than the top of RDS commonplace assist.

The right way to improve your database to keep away from RDS Prolonged Help fees
Though RDS Prolonged Help helps you schedule your improve by yourself timeline, sticking with older variations indefinitely means lacking out on one of the best price-performance on your database workload and incurring extra prices from RDS Prolonged Help.

MySQL eight.zero on Aurora MySQL, also referred to as Aurora MySQL three, unlocks assist for widespread Aurora options, equivalent to International Database, Amazon RDS Proxy, Efficiency Insights, Parallel Question, and Serverless v2 deployments. Upgrading to RDS for MySQL eight.zero gives options together with as much as 3 times greater efficiency versus MySQL 5.7, equivalent to Multi-AZ cluster deployments, Optimized Reads, Optimized Writes, and assist for AWS Graviton2 and Graviton3-based situations.

PostgreSQL 15 on Aurora PostgreSQL helps the Aurora I/O Optimized configuration, Aurora Serverless v2, Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL, pgvector extension, Trusted Language Extensions for PostgreSQL (TLE), and AWS Graviton3-based situations in addition to neighborhood enhancements. Upgrading to RDS for PostgreSQL 15 gives options equivalent to Multi-AZ DB cluster deployments, RDS Optimized Reads, HypoPG extension, pgvector extension, TLEs for PostgreSQL, and AWS Graviton3-based situations.

Main model upgrades might make database adjustments that aren’t backward-compatible with current functions. You must manually modify your database occasion to improve to the key model. It’s strongly advisable that you simply completely check any main model improve on non-production situations earlier than making use of it to manufacturing to make sure compatibility together with your functions. For extra details about an in-place improve from MySQL 5.7 to eight.zero, see the incompatibilities between the 2 variations, Aurora MySQL in-place main model improve, and RDS for MySQL upgrades within the AWS documentation. For the in-place improve from PostgreSQL 11 to 15, you need to use the pg_upgrade methodology.

To reduce downtime throughout upgrades, we advocate utilizing Absolutely Managed Blue/Inexperienced Deployments in Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS. With just some steps, you need to use Amazon RDS Blue/Inexperienced Deployments to create a separate, synchronized, absolutely managed staging atmosphere that mirrors the manufacturing atmosphere. This includes launching a parallel inexperienced atmosphere with higher model replicas of your manufacturing databases decrease model. After validating the inexperienced atmosphere, you possibly can shift visitors over to it. Then, the blue atmosphere may be decommissioned. To study extra, see Blue/Inexperienced Deployments for Aurora MySQL and Aurora PostgreSQL or Blue/Inexperienced Deployments for RDS for MySQL and RDS for PostgreSQL within the AWS documentation. Normally, Blue/Inexperienced Deployments are the most suitable choice to scale back downtime, aside from restricted circumstances in Amazon Aurora or Amazon RDS.

For extra info on performing a serious model improve in every DB engine, see the next guides within the AWS documentation.

Now accessible
Amazon RDS Prolonged Help is now accessible for all prospects operating Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS situations utilizing MySQL 5.7, PostgreSQL 11, and better main variations in AWS Areas, together with the AWS GovCloud (US) Areas past the top of the usual assist date in 2024. You don’t must decide in to RDS Prolonged Help, and also you get the pliability to improve your databases and continued assist for as much as three years.

Study extra about RDS Prolonged Help within the Amazon Aurora Person Information and the Amazon RDS Person Information. For pricing particulars and timelines for RDS Prolonged Help, see Amazon Aurora pricing, RDS for MySQL pricing, and RDS for PostgreSQL pricing.

Please ship suggestions to AWS re:Submit for Amazon RDS and Amazon Aurora or by way of your normal AWS Help contacts.

— Channy

Replace December 22, 2022 – This put up has been up to date for readability to offer the data of charged interval about RDS Prolonged Help for our readers.