What's New

The following tables describe the features released in each RDS version and corresponding documentation updates. New features will be successively launched in each region.
January 2021
| No. | Feature | Description | Phase | Document |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | RDS for MySQL supports second-level monitoring. | RDS for MySQL supports second-level monitoring. You can choose the monitoring interval to 1 second or 5 seconds to view the metrics. | Open beta testing | |
| 2 | RDS for PostgreSQL supports configurations and modifications to private domain names. | You can apply for a private domain name and connect to RDS DB instances through the private domain name. | Open beta testing | |
| 3 | RDS for MySQL supports cross-region backup policy settings through v3 APIs. | You can set cross-region backup policies, query cross-region instances, and set restoration time ranges of cross-region backups. | Commercial use |
December 2020
| No. | Feature | Description | Phase | Document |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | RDS for MySQL supports scheduled reboot for DB instances. | You can choose a scheduled time within the maintenance window to reboot DB instances. | Commercial use | |
| 2 | Database proxy metrics are added to RDS for PostgreSQL. | You can view database proxy metrics monitored for PostgreSQL DB instances. | Commercial use | |
| 3 | Database management APIs are added to RDS for PostgreSQL. | You can query details about databases, database users, and database schemas. | Commercial use |
November 2020
| No. | Feature | Description | Phase | Document |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | RDS for PostgreSQL supports database and user creation using v3 APIs. | You can create databases and database accounts, and authorize database accounts using v3 APIs. | Commercial use | |
| 2 | RDS for PostgreSQL supports read/write splitting. | You can enable or disable read/write splitting, set the delay threshold, and distribute read loads to read replicas on the RDS console. | Open beta testing |
October 2020
| No. | Feature | Description | Phase | Document |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | RDS for PostgreSQL supports cross-cloud disaster recovery (DR). | With the PostgreSQL-delivered DR capability for primary and DR instances, you can promote a DR instance to be the primary DB instance using APIs. | Commercial use | |
| 2 | RDS for MySQL supports DB instance specification changes. | You can change MySQL DB instance specifications using APIs. | Commercial use |
September 2020
| No. | Feature | Description | Phase | Document |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | RDS for MySQL supports certificate resetting and download. | You can replace the service SSL certificate with the public cloud-provided certificate or public key infrastructure (PKI) certificate. | Commercial use | |
| 2 | The manual "HUAWEI CLOUD MySQL Kernel" is added. | The manual contains kernel version descriptions, connection thread pools, and dual channels for primary/standby replication, and metadata locks. | Commercial use |
August 2020
| No. | Feature | Description | Phase | Document |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | RDS for SQL Server supports account creation using stored procedures. | You can use SQL Server stored procedures to create accounts that have all permissions of the rdsuser user. | Commercial use |
July 2020
| No. | Feature | Description | Phase | Document |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | RDS for SQL Server supports SDK. | You can query and delete Microsoft SQL Server DB instances using APIs. | Commercial use |
May 2020
| No. | Feature | Description | Phase | Document |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | APIs are provided for you to set the maintenance window and download slow query logs. |
| Commercial use |
April 2020
| No. | Feature | Description | Phase | Document |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | New metrics are added to RDS for SQL Server. | Monitoring metrics and dimensions are added to RDS for SQL Server. | Commercial use | |
| 2 | RDS for SQL Server supports DB engine version upgrades of SQL Server. | You can upgrade the SQL Server engine version on the RDS console. | Commercial use |
March 2020
| No. | Feature | Description | Phase | Document |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | RDS for SQL Server supports minor version upgrades. | RDS for SQL Server automates minor version upgrades, which involves improving performance, adding new functions, and fixing bugs. | Commercial use | |
| 2 | The v1 API documents are brought offline. | The v1 API documents are brought offline, and the v3 API documents are brought online. | Commercial use | - |
| 3 | RDS for MySQL supports point-in-time restores of tables. | You can restore tables to a specified point in time for MySQL DB instances through v3 APIs. | Commercial use |
February 2020
| No. | Feature | Description | Phase | Document |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You can view tasks of each DB instance in the task center. | The creation and completion time of each DB instance task is displayed in the task center. | Commercial use |
December 2019
| No. | Feature | Description | Phase | Document |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The audit operation list is optimized. | Operations supported by CTS are optimized. | Commercial use | |
| 2 | MySQL database management and account management are optimized. | MySQL database management and account management are optimized. | Commercial use | |
| 3 | Descriptions about RDS DB instances can be changed. | You can add and change descriptions for your DB instances. | Commercial use |
November 2019
| No. | Feature | Description | Phase | Document |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | RDS for SQL Server supports alert notification management using stored procedures. | You can set up, update, and delete alert notifications using stored procedures. | Commercial use |
October 2019
| No. | Feature | Description | Phase | Document |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | RDS for MySQL 8.0 supports SQL audit enablement. | After SQL audit is enabled, all SQL operations will be recorded in log files for your further download and query. | Commercial use | |
| 2 | RDS for MySQL supports the setting of the delay threshold for read/write splitting. | You can set the delay threshold for MySQL read/write splitting on the RDS console. | Commercial use |
Earlier Feature Releases
View PDF of earlier feature releases.
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