Amazon Aurora MySQL 3.09 (compatible with MySQL 8.0.40) is now generally available

Starting today, Amazon Aurora MySQL - Compatible Edition 3 (with MySQL 8.0 compatibility) will support MySQL 8.0.40 through Aurora MySQL v3.09. In addition to several security enhancements and bug fixes, MySQL 8.0.40 contains enhancements that improve database availability when handling large number of tables and reduce InnoDB issues related to redo logging, and index handling.

Aurora MySQL 3.09 includes performance enhancements to improve write throughput for 32xl and larger instances running on I/O-Optimized configuration. This release also contains improvements that increase the cross-region resiliency of Aurora Global Database secondary region clusters. For more details, refer to the Aurora MySQL 3.09 and MySQL 8.0.40 release notes.

To upgrade to Aurora MySQL 3.09, you can initiate a minor version upgrade manually by modifying your DB cluster, or you can enable the “Auto minor version upgrade” option when creating or modifying a DB cluster. For upgrading a Global Database, you can refer to upgrading an Amazon Aurora global database guide. This release is available in all AWS regions where Aurora MySQL is available.

Amazon Aurora is designed for unparalleled high performance and availability at global scale with full MySQL and PostgreSQL compatibility. It provides built-in security, continuous backups, serverless compute, up to 15 read replicas, automated multi-Region replication, and integrations with other Amazon Web Services services. To get started with Amazon Aurora, take a look at our getting started page.