The RDS Blue/Green Deployments feature is available on Aurora with MySQL Compatibility 5.6 or higher, RDS for MySQL major version 5.6 or higher, and RDS for MariaDB 10.2 and higher.

At a high-level, RDS streamlines setup, operation, and scaling relational databases in AWS, such as MariaDB, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, and others.

In 2009, AWS pioneered fully-managed cloud database services for open-source database management systems (DBMS) with the launch of Amazon Relational Database Service, or Amazon RDS. The ambition was ...