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ARC Region switch adds Amazon RDS Switchover Read Replica execution block

calendar_today August 20, 2026 person aws@amazon.com domain amazon-q

Today, we are launching the Amazon RDS Switchover Read Replica execution block in ARC Region switch , which automates recovery orchestration for Amazon RDS databases running Oracle Data Guard in multi-Region workloads. Amazon Application Recovery Controller (ARC) Region switch helps customers orchestrate the failover of their multi-Region applications to achieve a bounded recovery time in the event of a Regional impairment. To recover an Amazon RDS database running Oracle Data Guard during a Regional failover, customers perform manual steps to reverse the roles of the primary database and its

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