Mastering EOL Migrations: Lessons learned from MySQL 5.7 to 8.0 with Amazon RDS [Cloud Masters
Last year, many RDS MySQL customers were forced into a major version migration of MySQL 5.6 to MySQL 5.7 due to end-of-life support and availability of this version.
We saw many instances of customers not being ready or planning accordingly for this forced migration, and feeling a whole lot of pain as a result.
In the upcoming months, RDS MySQL customers will be forced into another major version migration of MySQL 5.7 to MySQL 8.0 as MySQL 5.7 has reached end-of-life. This migration is even more impactful to customer application and business continuity.
In this episode, we cover what you should do to properly upgrade your RDS MySQL databases, and lessons from this that you can apply to any EOL migration.
Additional resources:
Major version upgrade checklist: https://github.com/doitintl/rdbms-maj...
How to Capture SQL Statements with AWS RDS MySQL: / how-to-capture-sql-statements-with-aws-rds...
Guide for navigating the MySQL 5.7 end of life: https://github.com/doitintl/mysql-57-...
Amazon RDS Extended Support for MySQL databases on Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database...
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