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Target customers: users who want to upgrade the major engine versions of RDS instances from MySQL 5.7 to MySQL 8.0 and users who want to use the new features of MySQL 8.0. Features released: Users can upgrade the database engine versions of RDS instances from MySQL 5.7 to MySQL 8.0 in all regions. The RDS instances can be primary RDS instances to which read-only RDS instances are attached. The upgrade has the following benefits: 1. Enhanced instance security and more flexible account management 2. Creation and management of resource groups 3. Support for more features of the InnoDB storage engine 4. Support for character sets, data types, syntax, new types of backup locks, and optimizer_switch flags 5. Enhanced JSON and XML expressions 6. Enhanced optimizers 7. Enhanced replication performance 8. Creation of multi-value indexes and pushdown optimization for derived conditions 9. Readable MySQL authorization tables 10. Resource allocation control