#Aurora aws pricing update
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While it may not be perfect, I do think that this fits the definition of serverless. Support built-in high availability and fault toleranceĪurora Serverless provides an on demand, auto-scaling, high-availability relational database that only charges you when it’s in use.Yes, serverless has servers (I’m getting sick of typing this 🤦🏻‍♂️), but the general idea is that for something to be “serverless”, it should: Now let’s talk about the “serverless” part. This extra power (and convenience) comes with an added cost (~23% more per hour), but I’ve found it to be well worth it. It’s fully-managed, ridiculously fast (up to 5x faster than MySQL), and can scale using shared-storage read replicas and multi availability zone deployments. Aurora is Amazon’s “MySQL and PostgreSQL compatible relational database built for the cloud, that combines the performance and availability of high-end commercial databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open source databases.” If you are using MySQL or PostgreSQL, you can basically migrate to Aurora without any changes to your application code. You can read my post about it here: Aurora Serverless Data API: A First Look. It isn’t ready for primetime, but is a good first step. Update November 21, 2018: AWS released the Aurora Serverless Data API BETA that lets you connect to Aurora Serverless using HTTP as opposed to a standard MySQL TCP connection.

#Aurora aws pricing update

Update May 2, 2019: Amazon Aurora Serverless Supports Capacity of 1 Unit and a New Scaling Option I also want to dig into some of the technical details, pricing comparisons, and look more closely at the limitations. In this post, I want to dive a little bit deeper and discuss the pros and cons of Aurora Serverless.

#Aurora aws pricing full

The announcement gives a great overview and the official User Guide is chock full of interesting and useful information, so I definitely suggest giving those a read. There are A LOT of limitations with this first release, but I believe that Amazon will do what Amazon does best, and keep iterating until this thing is rock solid.

Amazon announced the General Availability of Aurora Serverless on August 9, 2018. I have been playing around with the preview of Aurora Serverless for a few months, and I must say that overall, I’m very impressed.