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- MEDIUM Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports September 2026 Monthly Recommended Patch
- INFO Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports M8i and R8i instances in additional AWS Regions
- INFO Amazon RDS now supports per snapshot billing
- INFO Amazon RDS for Oracle: JVM/Spatial/Locator/OLAP options no longer require automatic minor version upgrades
- INFO Amazon Aurora now supports post-quantum TLS key exchange
- INFO Amazon RDS for Oracle and SQL Server support storage autoscaling on additional volumes
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- INFO NEW THIS WEEK AWS What's New · 3 Nov 2026
Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports M8i and R8i instances in additional AWS Regions
Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports M8i and R8i instances in Asia Pacific (New Zealand), Canada West (Calgary), Europe (Milan, Stockholm, Zurich), and Israel (Tel Aviv).
- INFO NEW THIS WEEK ACT BY 1 NOV 2026 AWS What's New · 2 Nov 2026
Amazon RDS now supports per snapshot billing
RDS snapshots now show individual costs in Cost Explorer and CUR reports instead of only aggregated instance totals.
- INFO NEW THIS WEEK AWS What's New · 30 Oct 2026
Amazon RDS for Oracle: JVM/Spatial/Locator/OLAP options no longer require automatic minor version upgrades
AWS now allows users to disable automatic minor version upgrades for Oracle DB instances using JVM, Spatial, Locator, or OLAP options, giving more control over upgrade timing.
- INFO NEW THIS WEEK AWS What's New · 30 Oct 2026
Amazon Aurora now supports post-quantum TLS key exchange
Aurora PostgreSQL 18+ adds post-quantum TLS key exchange for data-in-transit encryption.
- INFO NEW THIS WEEK AWS What's New · 29 Oct 2026
Amazon RDS for Oracle and SQL Server support storage autoscaling on additional volumes
RDS storage autoscaling now extends to additional storage volumes, automatically scaling capacity up to 256 TiB with no downtime for Oracle and SQL Server instances.
- MEDIUM NEW THIS WEEK AWS What's New · 29 Oct 2026
Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports September 2026 Monthly Recommended Patch
Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports the September 2026 Monthly Recommended Patch for Oracle Database 19c and 26ai, which includes the latest security updates and updated time zone file.
- INFO AWS What's New · 26 Oct 2026
Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports latest CU and GDR updates
Amazon RDS adds support for the newest Cumulative Update and GDR releases for SQL Server 2017, 2019, 2022, and 2025.
- INFO AWS What's New · 21 Oct 2026
Amazon Aurora and RDS now support On-Demand Capacity Reservation
New feature lets you reserve compute capacity for Aurora and RDS instances in specific AZs to guarantee capacity for migrations, peaks, or DR.
- INFO AWS What's New · 20 Oct 2026
Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports snapshots on read replicas
AWS now lets you create snapshots directly on SQL Server read replicas without promoting them first, simplifying backup and DR workflows.
- INFO ACT BY 31 DEC 2026 AWS What's New · 16 Oct 2026
PostgreSQL 19 RC1 now available in Amazon RDS Preview Environment
Amazon RDS now offers PostgreSQL 19 Release Candidate 1 in its Database Preview Environment for evaluation and testing.
- INFO AWS What's New · 5 Oct 2026
AWS Advanced Ruby Driver Wrapper generally available
New open-source Ruby driver wrapper for RDS and Aurora PostgreSQL/MySQL reduces failover times and supports IAM/Secrets Manager auth.
- INFO AWS What's New · 3 Oct 2026
Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL now supports PostgreSQL 19 Beta 4 in Preview Environment
Amazon RDS now offers PostgreSQL 19 Beta 4 in its Database Preview Environment, letting users test the latest pre-release version with performance and autovacuum improvements.
- INFO AWS What's New · 3 Oct 2026
Amazon RDS now shows full snapshot size in Console and API
RDS snapshots are incremental. The new FullSnapshotSizeInBytes field shows the true size of the entire snapshot, including referenced blocks.
- MEDIUM AWS What's New · 3 Oct 2026
Amazon Aurora now supports PostgreSQL 18.6, 17.11, 16.15, 15.19, 14.24
Aurora PostgreSQL adds five new minor versions with community bug fixes, security patches, and Aurora-specific enhancements.
- INFO AWS What's New · 2 Oct 2026
Amazon RDS now supports AMD-based M8a instances
Amazon RDS adds M8a database instances powered by 5th-gen AMD EPYC processors for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB workloads.
- INFO AWS What's New · 2 Oct 2026
Amazon Aurora and RDS now support AMD-based R8a instances
Aurora PostgreSQL, Aurora MySQL, RDS PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB now run on R8a instances powered by 5th-gen AMD EPYC CPUs with up to 75 Gbps network and 60 Gbps EBS bandwidth.
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