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Azure auto-enrolled PostgreSQL 11, 12 and 13 servers in extended support on 1 August 2026 and bills from 1 September at $0.07 to $0.161 per vCore-hour. The upgrade escape hatch is narrower than it looks.
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.
PostgreSQL 14 reaches end of life on 12 November 2026. AWS starts Extended Support billing on 1 March 2027, Azure on 12 December 2026 and Google Cloud on 1 February 2027 - three different clocks, one upgrade plan.
Amazon RDS for MySQL 8.0 reaches end of standard support on 31 July 2026, and Extended Support billing begins the next day at roughly $292/month for a single db.r5.xlarge. Azure and Google Cloud bill from 1 January
