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Implement a rollback strategy after an Amazon Aurora MySQL blue/green deployment switchover

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This article discusses implementing a rollback strategy after an Amazon Aurora MySQL blue/green deployment switchover.

Specifically, the article covers:

  • Solution overview for setting up a rollback environment
  • Prerequisites and limitations of the solution
  • Preparing the green environment for rollback by enabling binary logging and configuring binary log retention
  • Performing the Aurora MySQL blue/green deployment switchover
  • Configuring logical replication from the new production environment to the rollback environment
  • Steps to perform a rollback to the old environment if issues arise in the new production environment
  • Cleanup of resources after rollback
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