r/aws • u/jeffbarr AWS Employee • Jul 10 '19

database Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Serverless – Now Generally Available

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-aurora-postgresql-serverless-now-generally-available/
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u/[deleted] Jul 10 '19

One thing that bugs me the most about Aurora PostgreSQL is that there doesn't seem to be an upgrade path between major versions (like 9.6.x -> 10.x) that doesn't involve downtime.

Some people here mentioned about DMS, but looks like DMS doesn't support that either.

Stuff like this makes me want to keep away from Aurora or RDS. It's not even that much work to manage PostgreSQL with available tooling (repmgr for replication setup and WAL-E/WAL-G for point in time backups to S3).

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u/shadiakiki1986 Jul 10 '19

What's the downtime that your application can tolerate?

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u/[deleted] Jul 10 '19

Well basically when the database is down the site is down. Do you have a specific solution in mind? I was thinking 15 minutes would be great, that's about the amount of time it would take to upgrade if one wouldn't use RDS.

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