Posted On: Oct 26, 2023
HAQM Relational Database Service (HAQM RDS) Blue/Green Deployments now supports safer, simpler, and faster updates to your HAQM Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition and HAQM RDS for PostgreSQL databases. Blue/Green Deployments create a fully managed staging environment using PostgreSQL community logical replication, that allows you to deploy and test production changes, keeping your current production database safer. With a few clicks, you can promote the staging environment to be the new production system in as fast as a minute, with no data loss and no changes to your application to switch database endpoints.
Use HAQM RDS Blue/Green Deployments for deploying changes to production, such as major version database engine upgrades, schema changes, maintenance updates, and scaling instances. Blue/Green Deployments use built-in switchover guardrails that will time-out promotion of the staging environment if it exceeds your maximum tolerable downtime, detects replication errors, or identifies instance health check errors.
HAQM RDS Blue/Green Deployments is now available for HAQM Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition and HAQM RDS for PostgreSQL for versions 11.21 and higher, 12.16 and higher, 13.12 and higher, 14.9 and higher, and 15.4 and higher in all applicable AWS Regions, including the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. HAQM RDS Blue/Green Deployments is also available for HAQM Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition 5.6 and higher, HAQM RDS for MySQL 5.7 and higher, and HAQM RDS for MariaDB 10.3 and higher.
In a few clicks, update your databases using HAQM RDS Blue/Green Deployments via the HAQM RDS Console. Learn more about Blue/Green Deployments on the HAQM RDS features page and AWS Blog.