Amazon RDS Weekly — 2026-03, Week 11

Editor’s Note

This week brings a mix of technical guidance and operational incidents affecting AWS infrastructure. New documentation addresses cross-cloud database migration patterns, while Amazon responds to service reliability events with heightened code controls and works to restore facilities in the Middle East.

Top Stories

Cross-Cloud MySQL Migration Using AWS DMS

AWS has published official guidance on migrating Cloud SQL for MySQL 8 and later to Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible or Amazon RDS for MySQL 8 using AWS Database Migration Service over AWS Site-to-Site VPN. The documentation walks through preparation steps for both source and target environments and details the cross-cloud connectivity configuration required to establish secure migration paths. For organizations evaluating multi-cloud strategies or consolidating workloads, this approach provides a supported path that bypasses public internet exposure during data transfer. Read more.

Security and Compliance

Amazon has mandated a 90-day code control reset across its engineering organization following multiple outages, including one traced to AI-generated code that resulted in lost customer orders. The directive represents a response to reliability incidents affecting production systems. Source.

Amazon Web Services experienced disruptions at data center facilities in the Middle East after being struck by unspecified objects, with restoration efforts expected to require at least one day. The incident affects regional infrastructure availability. Source.

Worth Reading

https://github.com/pgEdge/pgedge-postgres-mcp — Model Context Protocol implementation for Postgres by pgEdge
https://github.com/ansh-dhanani/mikk — Database tooling project