Amazon Aurora MySQL

Service

Amazon Aurora MySQL 8.4 is the newest actively maintained release, currently at patch 8.4.8. 3 of 4 tracked cycles remain supported. The next cycle scheduled to reach end-of-life is 2, on October 31, 2024.

Latest version

8.4.8

Sep 3, 2026

Actively maintained cycles

of 4 tracked

Total cycles tracked

since Jul 27, 2015

Support pattern

How Amazon Aurora MySQL has behaved across the cycles tracked here, rather than what its policy documents state. Useful for judging how much runway a version is likely to have before you commit to it.

Typical support window

79 mo (~6.6 years)

median of 4 completed cycles

New cycle roughly every

46 months

median gap between releases

Compared with service

+34 mo

longer than the service median

Next end of life

599 days

Amazon Aurora MySQL 3

Computed from release and end-of-life dates tracked for Amazon Aurora MySQL. Medians are used rather than averages so one unusually short or long release does not skew the figure. Cycles with no recorded end-of-life date are excluded from the support window.

Release lifecycle

Actively maintainedSecurity support onlyEnd of life

Today

8.4Latest

8.4.8 · Sep 3, 2026

3.13 · Aug 27, 2026

EOL Oct 31, 2024

EOL Feb 28, 2023

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