Amazon RDS and customer responsibilities with Amazon RDS Extended Support

The following content describes the responsibilities of Amazon RDS and your responsibilities with RDS Extended Support.

Amazon RDS responsibilities

After the RDS end of standard support date, Amazon RDS will supply patches, bug fixes, and upgrades for engines that are enrolled in RDS Extended Support. This will occur for up to 3 years, or until you stop using the engines, whichever happens first.

The patches will be for Critical and High CVEs as defined by the National Vulnerability Database (NVD) CVSS severity ratings. For more information, see Vulnerability Metrics.

Your responsibilities

You're responsible for applying the patches, bug fixes, and upgrades given for DB instances or Multi-AZ DB clusters enrolled in RDS Extended Support. Amazon RDS reserves the right to change, replace, or withdraw such patches, bug fixes, and upgrades at any time. If a patch is necessary to address security or critical stability issues, Amazon RDS reserves the right to update your DB instances or Multi-AZ DB clusters with the patch, or to require that you install the patch.

You're also responsible for upgrading your engine to a newer engine version before the RDS end of Extended Support date. The RDS end of Extended Support date is typically 3 years after the RDS standard support date. For the RDS end of Extended Support date for your database major engine version, see Supported MySQL major versions and Release calendar for Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL.

If you don't upgrade your engine, then after the RDS end of Extended Support date, Amazon RDS will attempt to upgrade your engine to a newer engine version that's supported under RDS standard support. If the upgrade fails, then Amazon RDS reserves the right to delete the DB instance or Multi-AZ DB cluster that's running the engine past the RDS end of standard support date. However, before doing so, Amazon RDS will preserve your data from that engine.