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Aurora Serverless

Aurora ServerlessΒΆ

  • No need to choose an instance size
  • Only supports [[MySQL]] 5.6 (as of Jan 2019) & [[MySQL]] (beta)
  • Helpful when you can't predict workload
  • DB cluster starts, shutdown and scales automatically based on CPU / connections
  • Can migrate from Aurora DB Cluster to AWS Aurora serverless and vice versa
  • Aurora serverless usage is measured in ACU ([[Aurora Capacity Units]])
  • Billed in 5 minutes increment of ACU
  • Note: Some features of aurora aren't supported in Serverless mode, be sure to check the documentation if you plan on using it.

NOTE: aurora serverless v2 supports MySQL 8 now