Amazon Aurora now supports PostgreSQL major version 17
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Amazon Aurora has released support for PostgreSQL version 17, bringing several key improvements and features:
- PostgreSQL 17.4 includes community updates and bug fixes
- Aurora-specific enhancements include:
- Enhanced memory management
- Faster storage metadata initialization during failovers
- Optimized write-heavy workloads on Graviton 4 instances
- New features for Babelfish and security updates
- Updated extensions like pgvector 0.8.0 and postgis 3.5.1
The new version is available across all commercial and AWS GovCloud regions. Users can create a new Aurora PostgreSQL-compatible database through the Amazon RDS Management Console with ease.
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