1 year ago

https://aws.amazon.com/polly/ When updating databases, using a blue/green deployment technique is an appealing option for users to minimize risk and downtime. This method of making database updates requires two database environments—your current production environment, or blue environment, and a staging environment, or green environment.

https://aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora and https://aws.amazon.com/rds (Amazon RDS) customers can use database cloning and promotable read replicas to help self-manage a blue/green deployment.

Today, we are announcing the general availability of Amazon RDS Blue/Green Deployments, a new feature for Amazon Aurora with MySQL compatibility, Amazon RDS for MySQL, and Amazon RDS for MariaDB that enables you to make database updates safer, simpler, and faster.

When you choose Create Blue/Green Deployment, it creates a new staging environment and runs automated tasks to prepare the database for production.