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[Feature] Add to rds_instance_info information regarding current engine version support dates #254

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@nikitahlushak

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe

Before recent updates from AWS, the only place you could get info regarding support dates for specific engine versions were only in AWS Documentation. E.g. link

To solve problem for myself I created a separate exporter that scrapes documentation page and calculates number of days before specific engine version becomes EOL

Describe the solution you'd like

Recently AWS added a separate API to describe engine version info, including support dates:
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/APIReference/API_DescribeDBMajorEngineVersions.html
It could become part rds_instance_info metric supplying valuable info about rds instance lifecycle and will allow setting up alarms to schedule engine version upgrade beforehand

Describe alternatives you've considered

For me, if things remains the same, I will continue to scrape this data by myself and use promql joins in Grafana to check eol dates for my databases

Additional context

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2025/05/amazon-rds-retrieval-engine-lifecycle-support-dates/

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