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Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports minor version upgrade prechecks and a new RDS event to help reduce patching downtime

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AWS·Oct 8, 2026, 06:00 PMFeatureAI-assisted summary

Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports minor version upgrade prechecks and a new RDS event to help reduce patching downtime

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Added a read‑only precheck procedure (rdsadmin_precheck_tasks.precheck_minor_upgrade) to validate Oracle minor version upgrades before maintenance windows.
Introduced RDS‑EVENT‑0596, emitted as soon as the DB instance accepts connections during a minor upgrade or OS update, enabling applications to reconnect while remaining tasks complete.
Available in all commercial and GovCloud (US) regions and integrates with RDS event notifications and EventBridge.

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Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports minor version upgrade prechecks and a new RDS event to help reduce patching downtime

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Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports minor version upgrade prechecks and a new RDS event to help reduce patching downtime

Summary

Added a read‑only precheck procedure (rdsadmin_precheck_tasks.precheck_minor_upgrade) to validate Oracle minor version upgrades before maintenance windows.
Introduced RDS‑EVENT‑0596, emitted as soon as the DB instance accepts connections during a minor upgrade or OS update, enabling applications to reconnect while remaining tasks complete.
Available in all commercial and GovCloud (US) regions and integrates with RDS event notifications and EventBridge.

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