towardsthecloud / towardsthecloud/cloudburn
Track RDS and Aurora engine support lifecycle dates
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Description
What
Replace static RDS engine-version checks with maintained lifecycle data, including Aurora standard-support and Extended Support dates.
Why
Hard-coded version lists become stale and cannot distinguish a version that is unsupported from one that is entering paid Extended Support. Date-aware evidence gives teams time to plan upgrades and identifies avoidable support charges.
Details
- Establish an authoritative, updateable source for engine lifecycle dates and document its refresh process.
- Cover supported RDS engines and Aurora MySQL and PostgreSQL versions where AWS publishes standard-support and Extended Support dates.
- Produce separate findings for approaching paid support, currently billed Extended Support, and unsupported versions.
- Include engine, version, relevant lifecycle date, days remaining, and support state as evidence.
- Keep static IaC and live discovery evaluation on the same generated lifecycle catalog.
Related: #112
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by locating the existing static RDS engine-version checks and reviewing related issue #112 as entry points for the lifecycle catalog design. Done means an authoritative, refreshable catalog covers supported RDS and Aurora versions, produces distinct support-state findings with dates and days remaining, and is shared by static IaC and live discovery evaluation.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- aws, typescript
- Domain
- cloud
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Active
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100