Amazon RDS for Oracle Adds Support for January 2026 Release Update and Spatial Patch Bundle

Amazon RDS incorporated the January 2026 Oracle Database Release Update and Spatial Patch Bundle for enhanced security and spatial functionality.

By Diana Quinn · Editorial pseudonym · 2026-02-20 · 1 min read

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Retrospective edition: 2026-02-20. Source published: 2026-02-20. Added to this archive: 2026-11-03. This briefing was prepared later from the linked announcement; it was not published on this website on the historical edition date.

Amazon RDS now supports Oracle Database 19c and 21c January 2026 Release Updates, which include security improvements. Additionally, a Spatial Patch Bundle enhances Oracle Spatial and Graph performance and reliability in version 19c.

Users can apply these updates via the AWS Console or CLI, with options for automated maintenance window deployment. AWS provides organizational upgrade rollout policies to manage phased deployment across production and non-production instances. While AWS published these capabilities, customers should test updates in context of their database workloads.

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Source published 2026-02-20. This report was prepared with AI assistance from the linked primary-source material. Claims and limitations should be checked against the original announcement or research.