Tag: Blue/Green Deployments

Recently, Amazon RDS launched the ability to shrink storage volumes using Amazon RDS Blue/Green Deployments – a nice addition to the list of new use cases that Blue/Green Deployments now supports. In this post, we cover how to use the new storage volume shrink feature in Amazon RDS Blue/Green Deployments to minimize the downtime required to perform the storage size reduction operation. We also review various mechanisms to monitor the progress of storage shrink and best practices on how to arrive at the optimal storage size for your shrink storage task.

With the recent addition of physical replication as an option for RDS Blue/Green Deployments, you can overcome most of the limitations of logical replication. This makes physical replication particularly well-suited for use cases like minor version upgrades, schema changes (DDL operations) in the blue environment, and storage adjustments. In this post, we delve into the advantages of using physical replication in RDS for PostgreSQL blue/green deployments to simplify database operations and scale with application demands. We explore the key benefits of physical replication and provide a step-by-step guide to help you get started with this new capability.

In this post, we discuss the steps to perform a blue/green deployment switchover and how to set up and perform a rollback strategy post switchover for Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition.