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Friday, November 13, 2026

Amazon RDS for Oracle Cuts Maintenance Downtime with Pre-staging

Amazon RDS for Oracle now reduces downtime during automatic minor version upgrades and scheduled maintenance by preparing resources up to 30 minutes before your maintenance window starts. This means your database stays online longer while RDS gets everything ready behind the scenes—no extra cost, available across all commercial AWS Regions and GovCloud.

source: [aws/whats-new]