It might not be that simple as ops folks often have to support specific versions of stuff on apps that use db-specific features. In that case, it might be wort

It might not be that simple as ops folks often have to support specific versions of stuff on apps that use db-specific features. In that case, it might be worth a prof services contract with a db shop. (I've supported clustered Oracle on AWS handing massive numbers of micropayment transactions and seen weird shit in prod where it "kind-of failed" according to our ops dba. Classes of survivable bugs vary from apply a vendor hotfix to edge cases not worth downtime.)