Forced upgrade, severity medium

Amazon RDS for MySQL 8.0 reached end of standard support on 2026-07-31

Published October 31, 2026

Amazon RDS for MySQL 8.0 no longer gets security fixes; the provider may force an upgrade or charge for extended support.

Deadline: July 31, 2026

What's affected

• aws rds mysql>=8.0 <8.1

What to do

1. Upgrade Amazon RDS for MySQL to a supported version (latest 8.0.x is 8.0.46; move to a newer cycle).

Check whether you were affected

Pharon tells teams automatically when this affects something they run. To check a machine, run this in Claude Code with the Pharon plugin, in the repository that uses it:

/pharon:check-incident eol-amazon-rds-mysql-8-0

References

• https://endoflife.date/amazon-rds-mysql

Notice eol-amazon-rds-mysql-8-0, signed with key feed-prod-2026-10 (Ed25519). The Pharon CLI verifies the signature before using a notice.