Amazon RDS Extended Support with Amazon RDS - Amazon Relational Database Service

Amazon RDS Extended Support with Amazon RDS

With Amazon RDS Extended Support, you can continue running your database on a major engine version past the RDS end of standard support date for an additional cost. After the RDS end of standard support date, if you didn't disable RDS Extended Support during the creation or restoration of your DB instances, then Amazon RDS will automatically enroll them in RDS Extended Support. Automatic enrollment into RDS Extended Support doesn't change the database engine and doesn't impact the uptime or performance of your DB instance.

RDS Extended Support provides the following updates and technical support:

  • Security updates for critical and high CVEs for your DB instance or DB cluster, including the database engine

  • Bug fixes and patches for critical issues

  • The ability to open support cases and receive troubleshooting help within the standard Amazon RDS service level agreement

This paid offering gives you more time to upgrade to a supported major engine version. For example, the RDS end of standard support date for RDS for MySQL version 5.7 is February 29, 2024. However, you aren't ready to manually upgrade to RDS for MySQL version 8.0 before that date. In this case, Amazon RDS automatically enrolls your databases in RDS Extended Support on February 29, 2024, and you can continue to run RDS for MySQL version 5.7. Starting March 1, 2024, Amazon RDS automatically charges you for RDS Extended Support.

RDS Extended Support is available for up to 3 years past the RDS end of standard support date for a major engine version. After this time, if you haven't upgraded your major engine version to a supported version, then Amazon RDS will automatically upgrade your major engine version. We recommend that you upgrade to a supported major engine version as soon as possible.

For more information about the RDS end of standard support dates and the RDS end of Extended Support dates, see Supported MySQL major versions on Amazon RDS and Release calendar for Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL.

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