Category: Announcements

Today, we’re introducing Amazon RDS Blue/Green support for Aurora Global Database, enabling database upgrades and modifications with minimal downtime. With just a few steps, you can create a blue/green deployment that establishes a fully managed staging (green) environment mirroring the existing production (blue) environment, including the primary and its associated secondary regions of the Global Database.

On Oct 28, 2025, Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) introduced a new query planner (NQP) to improve database performance and stability. The redesigned architecture uses improved cost estimation techniques and optimized algorithms for smarter query plan selection.

Today, we are announcing Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) support for logged batches, a powerful feature that brings atomic, all-or-nothing write operations to your Apache Cassandra-compatible workloads. In this post, we explore the benefits of logged batches, demonstrate how to set up and run them, and discuss important considerations when using logged batches with Amazon Keyspaces.

Vector search for Amazon ElastiCache is now generally available. You can now use ElastiCache to index, search, and update billions of high-dimensional vector embeddings from popular providers like Amazon Bedrock, Amazon SageMaker, Anthropic, and OpenAI—with latencies as low as microseconds and up to 99% recall.

In this post, we show how to use Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB read replicas to scale your read operations by adding additional read replicas while maintaining a single write endpoint. Built in partnership with InfluxData, our read replica add-on offers InfluxDB open source customers the ability to horizontally scale their read capacity.

In this post we are announcing the strengthening of the partnership between AWS and InfluxData as Timestream adopts InfluxDB as the main purpose-built time series database.

Amazon Neptune version 1.4.5 introduces engine improvements and support for AWS Graviton-based r8g instances. In this post, we show you how these updates can improve your graph database performance and reduce costs. We walk you through the benchmark results for Gremlin and openCypher comparing Neptune v1.4.5 on r8g instances against previous versions. You’ll see performance improvements of up to 4.7x for write throughput and 3.7x for read throughput, along with the cost implications.

Today, we’re announcing improved observability for throttled requests in Amazon DynamoDB. These enhancements provide developers with enriched exception messages, detailed Amazon CloudWatch metrics, and a new, more cost-effective mode for CloudWatch Contributor Insights. Together, these improvements make it straightforward to understand, monitor, and optimize your DynamoDB applications’ performance. In this post, we explore how these […]

Today, Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) announced that Amazon DocumentDB version 3.6 will reach end of life on March 30, 2026. Starting March 31, 2026, you can continue to run Amazon DocumentDB version 3.6 on Extended Support. Extended Support provides fixes for critical security issues and bugs through patch releases for three years beyond the end of standard support of Amazon DocumentDB version 3.6.

Amazon ElastiCache now offers Extended Support so that you can upgrade to a new major version at a pace that meets your business requirements. Extended Support is a paid offering that provides critical security updates, bug fixes, and continued support for ElastiCache versions 4 and 5 for Redis OSS through January 31, 2029. Starting on February 1, 2026, ElastiCache Redis OSS v4 and v5 clusters that haven’t been upgraded will be automatically enrolled in Extended Support to provide continuous availability and security. In this post, we discuss what ElastiCache Extended Support entails, its key benefits, and the upgrade options available.