Does RDS for MySQL Support Version Upgrades?
- Major version upgrades
You can use DRS to smoothly migrate databases from MySQL 5.6 to MySQL 5.7 with minimal downtime. Before using DRS to upgrade a major version, you need to prepare a DB instance of the target version.
On the Instance Management page, click the target DB instance. On the displayed Basic Information page, click Migrate Database in the upper right corner of the page.
For more information, see Before You Start in the Data Replication Service User Guide.
Table 1 MySQL database version information Data Flow
Migration Direction
Source Database Version
Destination Database Version
MySQL database -> RDS MySQL instance
To the cloud
- MySQL 5.5.x
- MySQL 5.6.x
- MySQL 5.7.x
- MySQL 8.0.x
- MySQL 5.6.x
- MySQL 5.7.x
- MySQL 8.0.x
Data cannot be migrated from a later version database to an earlier version database.
- Minor version upgrades
RDS for MySQL supports automatic and manual minor version upgrades, which can improve performance, add new functions, and fix bugs.
For primary/standby DB instances, the standby DB instance is upgraded first and then the primary DB instance is upgraded.
For more information about minor versions, see RDS for MySQL Kernel Version Description.
For more information upgrade operations, see Upgrading the Minor Version.
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