How Vestiaire Collective achieved near-zero downtime RDS for MariaDB upgrades with Amazon RDS Blue/Green Deployments
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This article describes how Vestiaire Collective used Amazon RDS Blue/Green Deployments to upgrade its production MariaDB database fleet across two major versions with minimal downtime during peak sales season.
- Executed two-phase upgrade from MariaDB 10.6 to 11.4 with switchover times of 94 seconds and 7 seconds respectively
- Combined engine version upgrade with instance class migration from R7g to R8g for improved performance
- Achieved up to 40% query execution improvement and maximum CPU utilization of only 4.6% post-upgrade
- Used AWS Countdown Premium support for operational readiness review, runbook planning, and 24-hour standby coverage
- Validated application compatibility and DMS task continuity by running upgraded environment in parallel for over a week before switchover
- Lowest-downtime database maintenance event in company's five-year history with no monitoring alarms triggered
RDS Blue/Green Deployments enabled Vestiaire Collective to safely perform critical database upgrades during peak season with minimal business impact and significant performance gains.
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