ApsaraDB RDS for MySQL - Blue-green deployment supports upgrading MySQL 5.6 to 5.7/8.0
Oct 23 2025
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Target customers: customers who have extremely high requirements for business continuity, cannot accept prolonged downtime, and need to frequently upgrade engine versions, change architectures, or migrate to new major engine versions. New Feature/Specification: Blue-green deployment supports rollback-capable major database version upgrades with zero business modification. In addition to upgrading MySQL 5.7 to 8.0, upgrading MySQL 5.6 to MySQL 5.7 and 8.0 is now supported. Core advantages of RDS MySQL blue-green deployment: Zero-downtime upgrade: Version upgrades are implemented by traffic switching. After the upgrade, the ID and IP address of the instance in the production environment remain unchanged, which ensures a persistent connection without modifying the connection settings of your application. Rapid rollback: If an issue occurs with the new version, you can simply roll back to the original version without needing to redeploy or fix the issue. Resource isolation: The new and original versions run in isolated environments to prevent mutual interference. High availability: The redundant deployment ensures that sufficient resources are available to handle requests even during the traffic switch.
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