[Feature]: Enable Write forwarding on Aurora RDS Global Database Clusters

[dkheyman]

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Description

A new feature for AWS Aurora Global Database called write forwarding. This enables customers to forward write-only queries sent originally to Read Replica secondary clusters to the primary cluster for processing, without manually configuring anything, or network connectivity cross-region required. This needs to be supported in Terraform. It's a fairly simple change to the existing resource syntax.

New or Affected Resource(s)

• aws_rds_cluster

Potential Terraform Configuration

resource "aws_rds_cluster" "secondary-instance" {
  cluster_identifier      = "aurora-cluster-demo"
  availability_zones      = ["us-west-2a", "us-west-2b", "us-west-2c"]
  backup_retention_period = 5
  global_cluster_identifier = my-global-cluster
  source_region = us-east-1
  preferred_backup_window = "07:00-09:00"
  **enable_write_forwarding = true**
}

References

• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/AuroraUserGuide/aurora-global-database-write-forwarding.html#aurora-global-database-write-forwarding-enabling

[ewbankkit]

Announcement.

Requires AWS SDK v1.32.5:

• Update module aws/aws-sdk-go to v1.32.12 #13803

[yehudacohen]

Needed this pretty urgently for a project so picked it up quickly. It's my first contribution to this repo, so not sure about etiquette here. I hope this is okay.

[Crozin]

Any update on this?

[FaizRasool]

any update on this?

[github-actions]

This functionality has been released in v3.63.0 of the Terraform AWS Provider. Please see the Terraform documentation on provider versioning or reach out if you need any assistance upgrading.

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