Supported Regions and DB engines for cross-Region read replicas in Amazon RDS

By using cross-Region read replicas in Amazon RDS, you can create a MariaDB, MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, or SQL Server read replica in a different Region from the source DB instance. For more information about cross-Region read replicas, including source and destination Region considerations, see Creating a read replica in a different AWS Region.

Cross-Region read replicas are not available for the following engines:

• RDS for Db2

Cross-Region read replicas with RDS for MariaDB

Cross-Region read replicas with RDS for MariaDB are available in all Regions for the following versions:

• RDS for MariaDB 10.11 (All available versions)

• RDS for MariaDB 10.6 (All available versions)

• RDS for MariaDB 10.5 (All available versions)

• RDS for MariaDB 10.4 (All available versions)

• RDS for MariaDB 10.3 (All available versions)

Cross-Region read replicas with RDS for MySQL

Cross-Region read replicas with RDS for MySQL are available in all Regions for the following versions:

• RDS for MySQL 8.0 (All available versions)

• RDS for MySQL 5.7 (All available versions)

Cross-Region read replicas with RDS for Oracle

Cross-Region read replicas for RDS for Oracle are available in all AWS Regions for all supported database versions using Enterprise Edition. Replicas are supported only in non-CDBs and in the single-tenant configuration of the CDB architecture. Cross-Region read replicas aren't supported in the multi-tenant configuration of the CDB architecture.

For more information on additional requirements for cross-Region read replicas with RDS for Oracle, see Requirements and considerations for RDS for Oracle replicas.

Cross-Region read replicas with RDS for PostgreSQL

Cross-Region read replicas with RDS for PostgreSQL are available in all Regions for the following versions:

• RDS for PostgreSQL 16 (All available versions)

• RDS for PostgreSQL 15 (All available versions)

• RDS for PostgreSQL 14 (All available versions)

• RDS for PostgreSQL 13 (All available versions)

• RDS for PostgreSQL 12 (All available versions)

• RDS for PostgreSQL 11 (All available versions)

• RDS for PostgreSQL 10 (All available versions)

Cross-Region read replicas with RDS for SQL Server

Cross-Region read replicas with RDS for SQL Server are available in all Regions except the following:

• Africa (Cape Town)

• Asia Pacific (Hong Kong)

• Asia Pacific (Hyderabad)

• Asia Pacific (Jakarta)

• Asia Pacific (Melbourne)

• Canada West (Calgary)

• Europe (Milan)

• Europe (Spain)

• Europe (Zurich)

• Israel (Tel Aviv)

• Middle East (Bahrain)

• Middle East (UAE)

Cross-Region read replicas with RDS for SQL Server are available for the following versions using Microsoft SQL Server Enterprise Edition:

• RDS for SQL Server 2022

• RDS for SQL Server 2019 (Version 15.00.4073.23 and higher)

• RDS for SQL Server 2017 (Version 14.00.3281.6 and higher)

• RDS for SQL Server 2016 (Version 13.00.6300.2 and higher)