Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports minor version upgrade prechecks and a new RDS event to help reduce patching downtime
From the source: Amazon Web Services BlogAmazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle now lets you run a minor version upgrade precheck yourself, before you start an upgrade or before your scheduled maintenance window. RDS for Oracle now also emits a new event during patching that tells you when your DB instance is accepting connections again. With this event, you can bring your applications back while the remaining…
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