Amazon RDS for MariaDB

Service

Amazon RDS for MariaDB 12.3 is the newest actively maintained release, currently at patch 12.3.3. 5 of 8 tracked cycles remain supported. The next cycle scheduled to reach end-of-life is 10.6, on December 31, 2026.

Latest version

12.3.3

Sep 4, 2026

Actively maintained cycles

of 8 tracked

Total cycles tracked

since Oct 23, 2018

Support pattern

How Amazon RDS for MariaDB 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

57 mo (~4.8 years)

median of 8 completed cycles

New cycle roughly every

12 months

median gap between releases

Compared with service

+12 mo

longer than the service median

Next end of life

113 days

Amazon RDS for MariaDB 10.6

Support windows are getting shorter: the most recent cycles run about 15 months less than the earlier ones.

Computed from release and end-of-life dates tracked for Amazon RDS for MariaDB. 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

12.3Latest

12.3.3 · Sep 4, 2026

11.8

11.8.9 · Sep 4, 2026

11.4

11.4.13 · Sep 4, 2026

10.11

10.11.19 · Sep 4, 2026

10.6

10.6.28 · Sep 4, 2026

10.5

EOL Aug 31, 2026

10.4

EOL Feb 28, 2025

10.3

EOL Oct 23, 2023

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