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Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS now support On-Demand Capacity Reservations
Update3 days agoUnverifiedAdded Oct 22, 2026
Starting today, you can reserve compute capacity for your Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS DB instances in one or more Availability Zones for as long as you need it. Reserving capacity helps ensure that DB instance create, restore, scale-compute, and start operations don't fail because of insufficient capacity.
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Every Amazon Aurora and DynamoDB releaseAmazon DynamoDB global tables now support disassociating replicas
Amazon DynamoDB global tables now support disassociating a replica without deleting its table or data. Global tables provide fully managed, multi-Region, multi-active replication. You can now stop replication to and from a replica and continue using the same table as a single-Region table.
Amazon ElastiCache Serverless for Valkey now supports online migration with zero downtime
Amazon ElastiCache Serverless for Valkey now supports online migration from self-managed Valkey and Redis OSS on Amazon EC2 with zero downtime. Zero downtime means zero Errors returned to the client during migration, measured the same way the ElastiCache SLA measures availability.
Amazon DynamoDB Streams now supports timestamp-based stream processing
Amazon DynamoDB Streams now supports timestamp-based stream processing, enabling you to begin reading stream records from a specific point in time. Previously, you could only start from the oldest retained record (up to 24 hours old) or from new records written after you start consuming the stream.
AWS Transform for full-stack Windows modernization now supports Aurora PostgreSQL cross-region deployment in 7 more Regions
Today, AWS Transform for full-stack Windows modernization adds support for cross-region deployment of converted Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL databases and is available in seven additional AWS Regions.
Amazon ElastiCache for Valkey introduces ElastiCache Insights
Amazon ElastiCache for Valkey now features ElastiCache Insights, a pre-built dashboard in Amazon CloudWatch for your node-based clusters. ElastiCache Insights brings cluster health, memory, compute, network, command throughput, latency, keyspace, and errors into a single view sourced from a set of OpenTelemetry metrics that ElastiCache publishes...
Amazon GuardDuty RDS Protection now detects data exfiltration and destruction in Aurora and RDS databases
Amazon GuardDuty announces an expansion of RDS Protection that extends threat detection beyond login anomalies to identify data exfiltration and data destruction attacks targeting Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL and Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL databases.
AWS Advanced Ruby Driver Wrapper is generally available
The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Advanced Ruby Driver Wrapper is now generally available for use with Amazon RDS and Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL and MySQL-compatible databases. This advanced database driver reduces RDS Blue/Green switchover, Aurora Global database switchover and database failover times, improving application availability.
Amazon Aurora DSQL now supports partial indexes
Amazon Aurora DSQL now lets you build an index over a specific subset of a table, storing only qualifying rows rather than every row in the entire table, which improves query performance and lowers index storage cost. Many tables hold a small working set alongside a much larger history, such as open orders among years of completed ones.
Also shipped on Oct 21, 2026
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