[Announcement] Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL 12 will reach end of standard support on February 28, 2025. Upgrade your database before March 1, 2025.

PostgreSQL 12 will be deprecated by the community in November 2024 [1], and will not receive any bug fixes or security patches after that. Following the community timeline, PostgreSQL 12 will reach end of standard support on February 28, 2025.

If you need to continue using PostgreSQL 12 beyond that date, it will be available on RDS under Amazon RDS Extended Support. With Extended Support, your monthly charges will increase, but you will have time, up to three years, to upgrade to a new major version. RDS will provide critical security patches and bug fixes for your RDS instance as well as the PostgreSQL database engine during that time. To learn more about Extended Support, and the end-of-standard-support experience on Extended Support-enabled instances, refer to the RDS User Guide [2].

We recommend that you take action and upgrade your RDS for PostgreSQL 12 database (DB) instances to a higher major version, such as PostgreSQL 16 or higher, before end of standard support on February 28, 2025. Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL 16 [3] includes support for logical decoding on read replicas, logical replication from standbys, and over 90 PostgreSQL extensions such as pgactive, pgvector, pg_tle, h3-pg, pg_cron, and rdkit. PostgreSQL 16 introduces a number of performance and visibility improvements including greater query parallelism, SIMD CPU acceleration, and a ‘pg_stat_io’ view that provides statistics on I/O usage. Further, with PostgreSQL 16, developers can now use SQL/JSON constructors and identity functions.

If you have any questions or concerns, the AWS Support Team is available on AWS re:Post [4] and via Premium Support [5]

[1] https://www.postgresql.org/support/versioning/

[2] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/extended-support.html

[3] https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/11/amazon-rds-postgresql-major-version-16/

[4] https://repost.aws

[5] http://aws.amazon.com/support