Modern applications demand near-continuous availability, making database maintenance operations a critical challenge for development teams. Traditional approaches to database updates, patches, and upgrades often result in downtime, connection failures, and manual intervention requirements that disrupt business operations and impact user experience.
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) blue/green deployments help to address the challenge of planned downtime by creating parallel database environments that help you to make and test database changes before implementing them in a production environment. While this approach significantly reduces maintenance windows, applications can still experience brief interruptions during the switchover process, including connection termination, DNS propagation delays, and the need for manual intervention when connections fail.
AWS launched the AWS JDBC Driver in 2023 to extend standard JDBC drivers with AWS-specific…
