Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition now supports PostgreSQL versions 16.8, 15.12, 14.17 and 13.20. Please note, this release supports the versions released by the PostgreSQL community on February 20,2025 which replaces the previous February 13, 2025 release. These releases contain product improvements and bug fixes made by the PostgreSQL community, along with Aurora-specific security and feature improvements such as dynamic resizing of the allocated space for Optimized Reads-enabled temporary objects on Aurora I/O-Optimized clusters and new features for Babelfish . For more details, please refer to the release notes .
These releases are now available in all commercial AWS regions and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions, except China regions. You can initiate a minor version upgrade by modifying your DB cluster. Please review the Aurora documentation to learn more. For a full feature parity list across regions, head to our feature parity page .
Amazon Aurora is designed for unparalleled high performance and availability at global scale with full MySQL and PostgreSQL compatibility. It provides built-in security, continuous backups, serverless compute, up to 15 read replicas, automated multi-Region replication, and integrations with other AWS services. To get started with Amazon Aurora, take a look at our getting started page
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