ARC Region switch adds Amazon Aurora scaling and Amazon Neptune global database failover

Amazon Application Recovery Controller (ARC) Region switch helps customers orchestrate the failover of their multi-Region applications to achieve a bounded recovery time in the event of a Regional impairment. Today, we are announcing three new execution blocks — the Amazon Aurora serverless scaling execution block, the Amazon Aurora provisioned scaling execution block, and the Amazon Neptune global database failover execution block — which automate database scaling and failover for multi-Region workloads.

Customers running Amazon Aurora global database in active-passive configurations typically maintain a scaled-down secondary cluster to minimize cost. During failover, they must manually right-size and scale the secondary cluster to handle production traffic before routing requests — adding critical minutes to recovery time. The new Amazon Aurora serverless and Amazon Aurora provisioned scaling execution blocks automate right-sizing and scaling the secondary cluster as part of the Region switch plan, so it's ready for production traffic when failover completes.

Customers running Amazon Neptune global database face a similar challenge: failover requires scripting or manually deciding whether to switchover or detach-and-promote depending on the outage type — all under the pressure of an active incident. The new Amazon Neptune global database failover execution block automates both planned switchover and unplanned failover scenarios within a single plan, eliminating custom scripting during recovery.

All three blocks support cross-account orchestration, enabling a single plan to coordinate database operations across multiple accounts and Regions. To learn more, read documentation of Amazon Aurora provisioned scaling, Amazon Aurora serverless scaling and Amazon Neptune global database failover