Amazon Web Services → Microsoft Azure
Azure equivalent of Amazon RDS Blue/Green Deployments
Azure has no managed blue/green deployment for databases like Amazon RDS Blue/Green Deployments.
About Amazon RDS Blue/Green Deployments
| Provider | Amazon Web Services |
|---|---|
| Status | Generally available |
| What it is | Creates a synchronized staging (green) copy of a production (blue) database for upgrades and schema changes, then switches over with built-in guardrails. Works with RDS Proxy to shorten downtime. |
| Documentation | docs.aws.amazon.com |
| Pricing | Official pricing page |
Azure mappings (1)
| Capability | Azure equivalent | Match |
|---|---|---|
| Blue/green database upgrades | In-place major version upgrade (PostgreSQL) | No equivalent |
Availability, scaling & operations(1)
Blue/green database upgrades No equivalent
Azure has no managed blue/green deployment for databases like Amazon RDS Blue/Green Deployments. Azure PostgreSQL offers in-place major version upgrades, and you can build a blue/green pattern yourself with read replicas or logical replication.
- RDS creates and syncs the green environment, then switches over with guardrails (and works with RDS Proxy to reduce downtime). Azure's in-place upgrade keeps the server name and connection string, but involves downtime and can't be tested on a live copy first, so test on a restored copy.