Amazon Relational Database Service

2025/09/30 - 15 updated api methods

Changes   Enhanced RDS error handling: Added DBProxyEndpointNotFoundFault, DBShardGroupNotFoundFault, KMSKeyNotAccessibleFault for snapshots/restores/backups, NetworkTypeNotSupported, StorageTypeNotSupportedFault for restores, and granular state validation faults. Changed DBInstanceNotReadyFault to HTTP 400.

2025/09/11 - 4 updated api methods

Changes   Adds support for end-to-end IAM authentication in RDS Proxy for MySQL, MariaDB, and PostgreSQL engines.

2025/09/04 - 8 updated api methods

Changes   Added new EndpointNetworkType and TargetConnectionNetworkType fields in Proxy APIs to support IPv6

2025/09/03 - 4 updated api methods

Changes   This release adds support for MasterUserAuthenticationType parameter on CreateDBInstance, ModifyDBInstance, CreateDBCluster, and ModifyDBCluster operations.

2025/08/28 - 1 updated api methods

Changes   Added RDS HTTP Endpoint feature support flag to DescribeOrderableDBInstanceOptions API

2025/08/05 - 12 updated api methods

Changes   Adds a new Aurora Serverless v2 attribute to the DBCluster resource to expose the platform version. Also updates the attribute to be part of both the engine version and platform version descriptions.

2025/07/30 - 10 updated api methods

Changes   Add support for setting Serverless Scaling Configuration on clusters.

2025/06/24 - 6 updated api methods

Changes   Adding support for RDS on Dedicated Local Zones, including local backup target, snapshot availability zone and snapshot target

2025/06/06 - 12 updated api methods

Changes   Include Global Cluster Identifier in DBCluster if the DBCluster is a Global Cluster Member.

2025/05/20 - 1 new api methods

Changes   This release introduces the new DescribeDBMajorEngineVersions API for describing the properties of specific major versions of database engines.

2025/05/16 - 1 new 6 updated api methods

Changes   This release adds Global Cluster Switchover capability which enables you to change your global cluster's primary AWS Region, the region that serves writes, while preserving the replication between all regions in the global cluster.

2025/04/24 - 6 updated api methods

Changes   This Amazon RDS release adds support for managed master user passwords for Oracle CDBs.

2024/12/20 - 9 updated api methods

Changes   Support AWS Secret Manager managed password for AWS DocumentDB instance-based cluster.

2024/12/16 - 4 updated api methods

Changes   This release adds support for the "MYSQL_CACHING_SHA2_PASSWORD" enum value for RDS Proxy ClientPasswordAuthType.

2024/12/02 - 25 updated api methods

Changes   Amazon RDS supports CloudWatch Database Insights. You can use the SDK to create, modify, and describe the DatabaseInsightsMode for your DB instances and clusters.

2024/11/20 - 1 updated api methods

Changes   This release adds support for scale storage on the DB instance using a Blue/Green Deployment.

2024/11/18 - 16 updated api methods

Changes   Add support for the automatic pause/resume feature of Aurora Serverless v2.

2024/10/28 - 2 updated api methods

Changes   This release adds support for Enhanced Monitoring and Performance Insights when restoring Aurora Limitless Database DB clusters. It also adds support for the os-upgrade pending maintenance action.

2024/10/22 - 7 updated api methods

Changes   Global clusters now expose the Endpoint attribute as one of its fields. It is a Read/Write endpoint for the global cluster which resolves to the Global Cluster writer instance.

2024/10/01 - 17 updated api methods

Changes   This release provides additional support for enabling Aurora Limitless Database DB clusters.

2024/09/23 - 5 updated api methods

Changes   Support ComputeRedundancy parameter in ModifyDBShardGroup API. Add DBShardGroupArn in DBShardGroup API response. Remove InvalidMaxAcuFault from CreateDBShardGroup and ModifyDBShardGroup API. Both API will throw InvalidParameterValueException for invalid ACU configuration.

2024/09/16 - 7 updated api methods

Changes   Launching Global Cluster tagging.

2024/08/15 - 1 new api methods

Changes   This release adds Global Cluster Failover capability which enables you to change your global cluster's primary AWS region, the region that serves writes, during a regional outage. Performing a failover action preserves your Global Cluster setup.

2024/08/01 - 5 updated api methods

Changes   This release adds support for specifying optional MinACU parameter in CreateDBShardGroup and ModifyDBShardGroup API. DBShardGroup response will contain MinACU if specified.

2024/05/20 - 32 updated api methods

Changes   This release adds support for EngineLifecycleSupport on DBInstances, DBClusters, and GlobalClusters.

2024/04/26 - 4 updated api methods

Changes   SupportsLimitlessDatabase field added to describe-db-engine-versions to indicate whether the DB engine version supports Aurora Limitless Database.

2024/04/09 - 4 updated api methods

Changes   This release adds support for specifying the CA certificate to use for the new db instance when restoring from db snapshot, restoring from s3, restoring to point in time, and creating a db instance read replica.

2024/04/03 - 1 new api methods

Changes   This release adds Global Cluster Switchover capability which enables you to change your global cluster's primary AWS Region, the region that serves writes, while preserving the replication between all regions in the global cluster.

2024/03/18 - 1 new 4 updated api methods

Changes   This release launches the ModifyIntegration API and support for data filtering for zero-ETL Integrations.

2024/03/06 - 12 updated api methods

Changes   Updated the input of CreateDBCluster and ModifyDBCluster to support setting CA certificates. Updated the output of DescribeDBCluster to show current CA certificate setting value.

2024/02/26 - 18 updated api methods

Changes   This release adds support for gp3 data volumes for Multi-AZ DB Clusters.

2024/01/24 - 5 new 12 updated api methods

Changes   This release adds support for Aurora Limitless Database.

2024/01/04 - 5 updated api methods

Changes   Adding PerformanceInsightsEnabled and PerformanceInsightsKMSKeyId fields to DescribeDBInstances Response.

2023/12/21 - 2 new api methods

Changes   This release adds support for using RDS Data API with Aurora PostgreSQL Serverless v2 and provisioned DB clusters.

2023/12/19 - 2 new api methods

Changes   RDS - The release adds two new APIs: DescribeDBRecommendations and ModifyDBRecommendation

2023/12/11 - 14 updated api methods

Changes   This release adds a new parameter configuration setting to the Neptune cluster related APIs that can be leveraged to switch between the underlying supported storage modes.

2023/11/20 - 14 updated api methods

Changes   Amazon DocumentDB updates for new cluster storage configuration: Amazon DocumentDB I/O-Optimized.

2023/11/17 - 12 updated api methods

Changes   This release adds support for option groups and replica enhancements to Amazon RDS Custom.

2023/11/07 - 5 new 22 updated api methods

Changes   This Amazon RDS release adds support for the multi-tenant configuration. In this configuration, an RDS DB instance can contain multiple tenant databases. In RDS for Oracle, a tenant database is a pluggable database (PDB).

2023/11/06 - 6 updated api methods

Changes   Update the input of CreateDBInstance and ModifyDBInstance to support setting CA Certificates. Update the output of DescribeDBInstance and DescribeDBEngineVersions to show current and supported CA certificates.

2023/11/01 - 12 updated api methods

Changes   This release adds support for customized networking resources to Amazon RDS Custom.

2023/10/30 - 3 new 4 updated api methods

Changes   This release launches the CreateIntegration, DeleteIntegration, and DescribeIntegrations APIs to manage zero-ETL Integrations.

2023/10/18 - 14 updated api methods

Changes   This release adds support for upgrading the storage file system configuration on the DB instance using a blue/green deployment or a read replica.