How do you migrate Amazon RDS from MySQL 5.1 to MySQL 5.5?

Question

RDS supports MySQL 5.5 and offers a lot of automated feature such as scaling up, expanding disk space, and upgrading the minor version of the database (e.g., from 5.1.49 to 5.1.50). However, is there a way to upgrade from 5.1.x to 5.5, either through the command line tools or the web GUI?

Answer 1

Good news, everyone! Amazon RDS now supports point-and-click upgrade from MySQL 5.1 to 5.5