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Thursday, October 8, 2026

Amazon RDS for Oracle Gets Smarter Patching with Prechecks and Connection Events

Amazon RDS for Oracle now lets you run upgrade prechecks before maintenance windows to catch issues early, plus emits a new event when your database accepts connections again—so you can reconnect apps while remaining tasks finish in the background. This means less downtime during patching across all AWS regions where RDS for Oracle is available.

source: [aws/whats-new]