AWS RDS Migrations: Avoid Downtime with the Right DevOps Approach

Most RDS migration issues come from manual steps and poor rollback planning.

Common problems:

• No automated snapshots before migration
• Direct changes on the primary DB
• Ignoring parameter groups & engine versions
• No read-replica or blue-green strategy

How DevOps helps:

• Automated RDS snapshots & restore testing
• Read-replica / blue-green migrations
• Schema versioning via CI/CD
• Monitoring replication lag & failover

A good RDS migration should be boring — no alerts, no downtime.

What’s your biggest concern during RDS migration: downtime, data loss, or rollback?

— Team IHA Cloud