Amazon RDS Multi-AZ deployment with two readable standbys supports 6 additional AWS Regions

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Multi-AZ deployments with two readable standbys are now available in six additional AWS Regions.

Amazon RDS Multi-AZ deployments with two readable standbys is ideal when your workloads require lower write latency, automated failovers, and more read capacity. In addition, this deployment option supports minor version upgrades and system maintenance updates with typically less than one second of downtime when using Amazon RDS Proxy or any one of the open-source AWS Advanced JDBC Driver, PgBouncer, or ProxySQL.

The six newly supported regions are Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Europe (Spain), Europe (Zurich), Middle East (UAE), and Israel (Tel Aviv) Regions. Amazon RDS Multi-AZ database with two readable standby instances is supported on Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL version 16.1 and higher, 15.2 and higher, 14.5 and higher, 13.8 and higher, and Amazon RDS for MySQL version 8.0.28 and higher. Refer the Amazon RDS User Guide for a full list of regional availability and supported engine versions.

Learn more about Amazon RDS Multi-AZ deployments in the AWS News Blog. Create or update fully managed Amazon RDS Multi-AZ database with two readable standby instances in the Amazon RDS Management Console.