Amazon RDS Blue/Green deployments now supports Aurora Global Database

Amazon RDS Blue/Green deployments now support safer, simpler, and faster updates for your Aurora Global Databases. With just a few clicks, you can create a staging (green) environment that mirrors your production (blue) Aurora Global Database, including primary and all secondary regions. When you’re ready to make your staging environment the new production environment, perform a blue/green switchover. This operation transitions your primary and all secondary regions to the green environment, which now serves as the active production environment. Your application begins accessing it immediately without any configuration changes, minimizing operational overhead.

With Global Database, a single Aurora cluster can span multiple AWS Regions, providing disaster recovery for your applications in case of single Region impairment and enabling fast local reads for globally distributed applications. With this launch, you can perform critical database operations including major and minor version upgrades, OS updates, parameter modifications, instance type validations, and schema changes with minimal downtime. During blue/green switchover, Aurora automatically renames clusters, instances, and endpoints to match the original production environment, enabling applications to continue operating without any modifications. You can leverage this capability using the AWS Management console, SDK, or CLI.

This capability is available in Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition and Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition versions that support the Aurora Global Database configuration and in all commercial AWS Regions and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions.

Start planning your next Global Database upgrade using RDS Blue/Green deployments by following the steps in the blog. For more details, refer to our documentation.