How to upgrade AWS RDS Aurora MySQL 5.6 to 5.7

Question

We are using AWS RDS Aurora MySQL 5.6 for our production database. AWS launched MySQL 5.7 compatible Aurora engine on 6th Feb, 2018.

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Answer 1

The comments above are true; there is still no in place upgrade for 5.6 to 5.7; the process is still pretty easy though;

1) Go to the RDS dashboard, in the left hand menu there is a menu item called 'Snapshots'; you can either click on this if you are ok using a recent snapshot; otherwise select your database & on the actions drop down & choose 'Take Snapshot'

2) In snapshots simply select your snapshot & choose 'Restore Snapshot' from the actions drop down; it will automatically duplicate a bunch of your previous settings. Its at this juncture you can select the new database engine of 5.7

All and all you should allow for at least a half an hour of downtime for the whole process. Probably a couple of hours to be on the safe side.