Cloud-native relational databases

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.

Public Preview: Azure HorizonDB expands to additional regions

Azure HorizonDB is expanding to additional Azure regions, giving you greater flexibility to deploy PostgreSQL workloads closer to your applications and users.

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.

Amazon Aurora and RDS now support AMD-based R8a instances

Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS now support R8a database instances powered by 5th generation AMD EPYC processors, expanding the choice available for your database workloads.

Aurora PostgreSQL now supports querying of Apache Iceberg and Parquet data

Starting today, you can directly query operational data together with data stored in data lakes in Apache Iceberg and Parquet formats using your existing PostgreSQL applications and tools, without extract, transform, and load (ETL) pipelines or data duplication.

Amazon Aurora serverless now scales faster to support agentic AI and other bursty workloads

Amazon Aurora serverless now scales in even larger steps, adding up to 16 ACUs to its current capacity within a second and continuing to scale up to 256 ACUs as your workload grows. With this launch, your workload will scale faster and reach capacity that it requires.

Amazon Aurora now supports PostgreSQL 18.6, 17.11, 16.15, 15.19, 14.24

Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition now supports PostgreSQL versions 18.6, 17.11, 16.15, 15.19, and 14.24, which include bug fixes from the PostgreSQL community and Aurora-specific enhancements.

Public Preview: Azure HorizonDB supports PostgreSQL 18

Azure HorizonDB is a fully managed, PostgreSQL-compatible, cloud-native database service designed for scalable, high-performance workloads.

You can now use the AlloyDB Columnar Engine as a read-optimized, in-memory cache for HNSW vector indexes.

This feature is generally available ( GA ). It accelerates vector search performance and increases queries per second (QPS) for vector workloads.

You can now monitor the status, throughput, and backlog of the audit logging pipeline for your AlloyDB for PostgreSQL instances and nodes using Cloud…

You can now monitor the status, throughput, and backlog of the audit logging pipeline for your AlloyDB for PostgreSQL instances and nodes using Cloud Monitoring.

Amazon Aurora MySQL now supports multi-source replication and delayed replication

Starting today, Amazon Aurora MySQL supports two new replication capabilities: multi-source replication and delayed replication.

Amazon Aurora MySQL 8.4.8 (compatible with MySQL 8.4.8) is now generally available

Starting today, Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition 8.4 will support MySQL 8.4.8. In addition to several security enhancements and bug fixes, Aurora MySQL 8.4.8 includes several improvements, such as support for post-quantum TLS (PQ-TLS) key exchange, transaction timeout,…

AlloyDB real-time data access to BigQuery (in Preview) now offers limit pushdown and runtime projects:

AlloyDB real-time data access to BigQuery (in Preview ) now offers limit pushdown and runtime projects:

Amazon Aurora serverless is now available with 30% better performance and smarter scaling in additional AWS Regions

Amazon Aurora serverless now delivers up to 30% better performance and enhanced scaling in additional AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (New Zealand), Asia Pacific (Thailand), Africa (Cape Town), Europe (Milan), and Mexico (Central).

Amazon Aurora MySQL 3.13 (compatible with MySQL 8.0.45) is generally available

Starting today, Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition 3 (compatible with MySQL 8.0) supports MySQL 8.0.45, which includes community MySQL fixes and Aurora-specific improvements. For detailed information on this release, refer to Aurora MySQL 3 and MySQL 8.0.45 release notes.

Amazon Aurora DSQL now supports foreign key constraints

Amazon Aurora DSQL now lets you add foreign key constraints to new and existing tables. Aurora DSQL is a serverless, distributed SQL database with PostgreSQL compatibility and active-active multi-Region availability.

Amazon Aurora now supports PostgreSQL 18.4, 17.10, 16.14, 15.18, and 14.23

Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition now supports PostgreSQL versions 18.4, 17.10, 16.14, 15.18, and 14.23 which include bug fixes from the PostgreSQL community and Aurora-specific enhancements.

Amazon Aurora DSQL now supports Amazon CloudWatch Database Insights

Amazon Aurora DSQL now features a new Amazon CloudWatch Database Insights metric that delivers per-statement, cluster-level performance monitoring details. Aurora DSQL database insights captures sampled wait states and normalized SQL statements for all active cluster sessions.

You can now use the Model Context Protocol (MCP) Toolbox for Databases to access AlloyDB observability features and advanced query insights directly in your…

You can now use the Model Context Protocol (MCP) Toolbox for Databases to access AlloyDB observability features and advanced query insights directly in your IDE.