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Instant's engineering team shares their journey of upgrading an Aurora Postgres instance to version 16 with zero downtime. This experience report details the challenges faced, including performance bottlenecks and failed upgrade attempts, ultimately leading to a successful migration strategy.

https://www.instantdb.com/essays/pg_upgrade
Instantdb A Major Postgres Upgrade with Zero Downtime Right before Christmas we discovered that our Aurora Postgres instance needed a major version upgrade. This covers how we made the upgrade with zero seconds of downtime.
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