Validate the upgrade process

After a few minutes you will see that the database already finished the upgrade process and the status will be back to Available.

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Click on the instance, then the Configuration tab and you will see that the database engine version went from 15.3 to 15.4.

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Or if you rather use the CLI command, type in the console:

aws rds describe-db-instances --db-instance-identifier < your database name > --region < your region > --query DBInstances[*].EngineVersion

You can see engine version after run command above:

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