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Jiaming Yan

Author: Jiaming Yan

Aurora serverless: Faster performance, enhanced scaling, and still scales down to zero

Amazon Aurora Serverless is an on-demand, auto scaling configuration for Aurora that scales up to support your most demanding workloads and down to zero when you don’t need it. The latest improvements deliver up to 30% better performance and enhanced scaling that understands your workload. These enhancements are available at no additional cost for a better price-performance ratio. In this post, we’ll share recent performance and scaling improvements with benchmark results, showing how Aurora Serverless can now scale up to 45.0% faster with a 32.9% faster workload completion time.