Amazon RDS Updates MariaDB Support to Include Recent Community Minor Versions

Amazon RDS now supports multiple recent MariaDB minor versions to address security, performance, and feature enhancements.

By Marcus Lane · Editorial pseudonym · 2026-02-20 · 1 min read

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Retrospective edition: 2026-02-20. Source published: 2026-02-11. 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’s managed Relational Database Service extended compatibility to MariaDB community minor versions 10.6.25, 10.11.16, 11.4.10, and 11.8.6. These upgrades fix known security vulnerabilities and introduce bug fixes and performance improvements contributed by the MariaDB developer community.

Amazon RDS users can enable automatic minor version upgrades or use Blue/Green deployments for safer updates. This managed service streamlines deployment and scaling of MariaDB instances in the cloud, though users should validate compatibility and test workloads after upgrading. The platform supports flexible version management to maintain database security and stability.

Source & further reading

Amazon RDS for MariaDB now supports community MariaDB minor versions 10.6.25, 10.11.16, 11.4.10, and 11.8.6 ↗

Source published 2026-02-11. 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.