Amazon RDS now supports ENA Express for Multi-AZ replication
Amazon RDS ยท 2026-05-26
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Technical Details
| Regions | Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific, Canada, Europe, Israel, Mexico, US East, US West, AWS GovCloud (US) |
|---|---|
| Cost Impact | Neutral |
What This Means
For DevOps Teams
Update existing Amazon RDS instances to enable ENA Express by performing a start-stop or scale compute action to leverage improved network performance and reliability.
For Platform Teams
Adopt ENA Express for Amazon RDS to integrate advanced congestion control and multi-pathing capabilities, resulting in increased write throughput and reduced latency variability for Multi-AZ deployments.
For Executives
Evaluate enabling ENA Express for Amazon RDS to achieve up to 25 Gbps single-flow bandwidth and lower write latencies, enhancing high availability and performance for critical database workloads.
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