Posted On: Sep 20, 2017

Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports customer-initiated upgrade of snapshots for deprecated Oracle Database versions 11.2.0.2, 11.2.0.3, and 12.1.0.1 to supported database versions 11.2.0.4 and 12.1.0.2.

Snapshot upgrade offers a single-step process that doesn't require a restore of the underlying RDS Oracle database instance. For more details on supported upgrade paths and how to use this feature, please refer to Amazon RDS for Oracle documentation.

Amazon RDS for Oracle makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale Oracle Database deployments in the cloud. See Amazon RDS for Oracle Database Pricing for regional availability.