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Amazon's 24 August 2026 post credits MySQL 8.4.11 with post-quantum TLS key exchange. The 8.4.11 release notes list no such feature, and RDS MySQL 8.4 is built on AWS-LC rather than OpenSSL 3.5.
AWS calls MariaDB 12.3 the latest LTS release. MariaDB's own calendar gives it three years, not five: EOL 12 June 2029 against 29 May 2029 for 11.4, which shipped two years earlier.
Amazon RDS added PostgreSQL 19 Beta 3 to its Database Preview Environment on 18 August 2026. The extension table marks PostGIS and pg_hint_plan N/A on all three betas, and pg_plan_advice 1.0 ships instead.
The new Amazon RDS Switchover Read Replica execution block runs nine graceful steps, and step 6 validates that the primary in the other Region is available. In a real Region outage that check cannot pass.
AWS launched Database Savings Plans at re:Invent 2025: up to 35% off nine managed database services for a 1-year commitment. We run the real numbers against Reserved Instances so you know when each one actually wins.
