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

Configuring Second-Level Monitoring

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

Applying for and Modifying a Private Domain Name

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

Rebooting a DB Instance

2

Database proxy metrics are added to RDS for PostgreSQL.

You can view database proxy metrics monitored for PostgreSQL DB instances.

Commercial use

Configuring Displayed Metrics

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

Database and Account Management (PostgreSQL)

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

Enabling Read/Write Splitting

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

Changing DB Instance Specifications

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

Resetting and Downloading a Certificate

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

Kernel Version Description

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

Creating an Account

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

Creating a Database

May 2020

No.

Feature

Description

Phase

Document

1

APIs are provided for you to set the maintenance window and download slow query logs.

  • You can obtain the links for downloading slow query logs using v3 APIs.
  • You can set the maintenance window using v3 APIs.

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

Configuring Displayed Metrics

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

Upgrading the DB Engine Version of a DB Instance

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

Upgrading the Minor Version of a DB Instance

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

Restoring Tables to a Specified Point in Time (MySQL)

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

Viewing a Task

December 2019

No.

Feature

Description

Phase

Document

1

The audit operation list is optimized.

Operations supported by CTS are optimized.

Commercial use

Key Operations Supported by CTS

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

Changing a DB Instance Description

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

Enabling the SQL Audit Function

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

Configuring Delay Threshold and Distributing Read Weight

Earlier Feature Releases

View PDF of earlier feature releases.