AWS Organizations now supports upgrade rollout policy for Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS
Today, AWS Organizations announces support for upgrade rollout policy, a new capability that helps customers stagger automatic upgrades across their Amazon Aurora (MySQL-Compatible Edition and PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition) and Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) including RDS for MySQL, RDS for PostgreSQL, RDS for MariaDB, RDS for SQL Server, RDS for Oracle, and RDS for Db2 databases. This capability eliminates the operational overhead of coordinating automatic minor version upgrades either manually or through custom tools across hundreds of resources and accounts, while giving customers peace of mind by ensuring upgrades are first tested in less critical environments before being rolled out to production.
With upgrade rollout policy, you can define upgrade sequences using simple orders (first, second, last) applied through account-level policies or resource tags. When new minor versions become eligible for automatic upgrade, the policy ensures upgrades start with development environments, allowing you to validate changes before proceeding to more critical environments. AWS Health notifications between phases and built-in validation periods help you monitor progress and ensure stability throughout the upgrade process. You can also disable automatic progression at any time if issues are detected, giving you complete control over the upgrade journey_._
This feature is available in all AWS commercial Regions and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions, supporting automatic minor version upgrades for Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS database engines. You can manage upgrade policies using the AWS Management Console, AWS CLI, AWS SDKs, AWS CloudFormation, or AWS CDK. For Amazon RDS for Oracle, the upgrade rollout policy supports automatic minor version upgrades for engine versions released after January 2026.
To learn more about automatic minor version upgrades, see the Amazon RDS and Aurora user guide. For more information about upgrade rollout policy, see Managing organization policies with AWS Organizations (Upgrade rollout policy).