Upgrade the Amazon RDS Aurora DB Instance

After you upgrade the Controller to 24.2 or higher, you might want to upgrade your Amazon RDS Aurora DB Instance to Aurora MySQL version 3 which is compatible with MySQL 8 of the Controller.

Complete the following steps to upgrade the Amazon RDS Aurora DB instance:

  1. Back up the Aurora Database.
  2. Create the DB Cluster Parameter Group and DB Parameter Group according to Aurora MySQL version 3. See Create Custom DB Parameter Groups.
  3. Stop the Controller App Server.
  4. Upgrade the Aurora RDS DB instance. See How to perform an in-place upgrade.
    Note: Ensure to update the DB cluster parameter group and DB parameter group that you have created earlier.
  5. Start the Controller App Server.