Today, we announce the Amazon Aurora MySQL power for Kiro. The power connects Kiro’s AI agent to Aurora MySQL and pairs live database access with curated best-practice guidance. You describe what you need in natural language. The agent generates the API calls, SQL, and configuration for you to review and run. In this post, we walk through how the power guides a production migration from Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MySQL 8.0 to Aurora MySQL through four phases: assessment, replica creation, promotion, and post-cutover validation.
A migration to Aurora MySQL involves several decisions: which method fits your downtime tolerance, source instance compatibility, how to translate parameter groups, and what to change in your application connection strings after cutover. In production, this can be a multi-week effort covering a compatibility audit, parameter group reconciliation, a rehearsed cutover runbook, and a fallback plan. Kiro powers on Amazon…
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