Upgrade / change database server (Aurora 1 with MySQL 5.6 is EOL and will retire on Feb 28, 2023)

[obscurerichard]

Subject: Amazon Aurora MySQL 1 (with MySQL 5.6 compatibility) will reach end of life on February 28, 2023 [AWS Account: 299196842131] [US-EAST-1]

Hello,

You are receiving this message because you have one or more Amazon Aurora MySQL clusters running a version of Aurora MySQL 1 (with MySQL 5.6 compatibility) in the US-EAST-1 Region.

Amazon Aurora MySQL 1 (with MySQL 5.6 compatibility) will reach end of life on February 28, 2023. We are providing you with a 12 month notice so you have sufficient time to upgrade your database cluster(s). You can find additional information needed to plan your upgrade including a detailed timeline with milestones in our documentation [1].

To find out which clusters are affected by this deprecation notice, please refer to the user guide [2].

Should you have any questions or concerns, the AWS Support Team is available via Premium Support [3] and on AWS re:Post [4].

[1] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/AuroraUserGuide/Aurora.MySQL56.EOL.html [2] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/AuroraUserGuide/Aurora.MySQL56.EOL.html#find-cluster [3] https://aws.amazon.com/support [4] https://repost.aws/

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[obscurerichard]

Just before opening registration on November 23, I upgraded to Aurora 2 and MySQL 5.7 via the console. The site came up just fine afterwards with no errors.

We should probably also update the docker-compose setup for local dev to use MySQL 5.7 as a result. Then we can close this issue.