Posted On: Aug 20, 2019

Amazon RDS for MySQL has been updated to support release 8.0.16 of the MySQL database. This release includes a number of security, account management, and other functionality improvements, along with a number of bug fixes.

To use the new version, you can create a new Amazon RDS database instance with just a few clicks in the Amazon RDS Management Console, or modify an existing instance using a point-and-click upgrade. See the documentation for more information about MySQL versions and upgrade procedures. 

Amazon RDS for MySQL makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale MySQL deployments in the cloud. See Amazon RDS for MySQL Pricing for regional availability.