Tracking which database engines are about to lose support is the kind of task nobody owns, until something breaks.
@weareraptive powers independent creators and digital publishers, running a fleet of dozens of
@AWS RDS databases. As engine versions approached end of standard support, the team was looking at either rushed upgrades or climbing extended-support bills. Documenting it all by hand was on the table, until they found a better way.
@doitint deployed a Cloud Intelligence™ CloudFlow template that scans every RDS instance across all accounts and AWS regions, then alerts the team six months before any engine reaches end of support.
→ 37 databases covered automatically, and counting
→ ~$10k/year in extended-support costs prevented
→ Six months of runway to plan upgrades instead of scrambling
The "RDS Engines Nearing EOL" template is available inside CloudFlow. Open it, search the Templates tab, and you're set.
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