Aurora Serverless v2

Aurora Serverless v2 is an on-demand, autoscaling configuration for Amazon Aurora. Aurora Serverless v2 helps to automate the processes of monitoring the workload and adjusting the capacity for your databases. Capacity is adjusted automatically based on application demand. You're charged only for the resources that your DB clusters consume. Thus, Aurora Serverless v2 can help you to stay within budget and avoid paying for computer resources that you don't use.

This type of automation is especially valuable for multitenant databases, distributed databases, development and test systems, and other environments with highly variable and unpredictable workloads.

Available for MySQL-compatible and PostgreSQL-compatible editions.

The database automatically starts up, shuts down, and scales capacity up or down based on application needs.

It enables you to run a database in the cloud without managing any database instances. It’s a simple, cost-effective option for infrequent, intermittent, or unpredictable workloads.

You simply create a database endpoint and optionally specify the desired database capacity range and connect applications.

With Aurora Serverless, you only pay for database storage and the database capacity and I/O your database consumes while it is active.

Pay on a per-second basis for the database capacity you use when the database is active.

Can migrate between standard and serverless configurations with a few clicks in the Amazon RDS Management Console.

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The table below provides a few example use cases for Amazon Aurora Serverless:

use cases

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Use Case

Example

Infrequently Used Applications

Application that is only used for a few minutes several times per day or week. Need a cost-effective database that only requires you to pay when it’s active. With Aurora Serverless, you only pay for the database resources you consume.

New Applications

Deploying a new application and are unsure which instance size you need. With Aurora Serverless, you simply create an endpoint and let the database auto-scale to the capacity requirements of your application.

Variable Workloads

Running a lightly used application, with peaks of 30 minutes to several hours a few times each day or several times per year. Now you only pay for what the resources needed based on load – avoiding paying for unused resources or risking poor performance.

Unpredictable Workloads

Running workloads where there is database usage throughout the day, and peaks of activity that are hard to predict. With Aurora Serverless, your database will auto-scale capacity to meet the needs of the application’s peak load and scale back down when the surge of activity is over.

Development and Test Databases

Software development and QA teams are using databases during work hours, but don’t need them on nights or weekends. With Aurora Serverless, your database automatically shuts down when not in use, and starts up much more quickly when work starts the next day.

Multitenant Applications

Web-based application with a database for each of your customers. Now you don’t have to manage database capacity individually for each application in your fleet. Aurora manages individual database capacity for you, saving you valuable time.

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