Amazon RDS Blue/Green Deployments support minor version upgrade for RDS for PostgreSQL

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Blue/Green Deployments now supports safer, simpler, and faster minor version upgrades for your Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL databases using physical replication. The use of PostgreSQL physical replication for database change management, such as minor version upgrade, simplifies your RDS Blue/Green Deployments upgrade experience by overcoming PostgreSQL community logical replication limitations.

You can now use Amazon RDS Blue/Green Deployments for deploying multiple database changes to production such as minor version upgrades, shrink storage volume, maintenance updates, and scaling instances in a single switchover event using physical replication. RDS Blue/Green Deployments for PostgreSQL relies on logical replication for major version upgrades.

Blue/Green Deployments for PostgreSQL creates a fully managed staging environment using physical replication for minor version upgrades, that allows you to deploy and test production changes, keeping your current production database safer. With a few clicks, you can switchover 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 for database endpoint management.

Amazon RDS Blue/Green Deployments is now available for Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL using physical replication for all minor versions for the major versions 11 and higher in all applicable AWS Regions. In a few clicks, update your databases using Amazon RDS Blue/Green Deployments via the Amazon RDS Console. Learn more about Blue/Green Deployments on the Amazon RDS features page.