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Why I Don't Use Aurora Blue-Green Deployments
AWS RDS Aurora MySQL's Blue-Green Deployment feature has hidden trade-offs that make it poorly suited for zero-downtime upgrades. A custom, controlled approach with warm standbys is often superior.