Amazon Aurora now provides additional monitoring information during upgrades

Amazon Aurora now provides additional granular monitoring information during upgrades for enhanced observability. Customers can use the additional granularity shared in Amazon Aurora Events to stay informed and better manage their database upgrades.

Customers upgrade their database version, operating system, and/or other components containing security, compliance, and functional enhancements. When applying upgrades, Aurora will now emit additional messages in Aurora Events and indicate when the database cluster is online and when it is not. For database minor version and patch upgrades, customers can use the messages to get additional granular insights about the exact downtime incurred for their database including the number of connections preserved during the upgrade. To learn more about how to monitor your upgrade process, you can view the technical documentation.

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 AWS services. You can get started by launching a new Amazon Aurora DB instance directly from the AWS Console or the AWS CLI. To get started with Amazon Aurora, take a look at our getting started page.