AWS Database Blog
Author: Luiz Verona
Improve Aurora PostgreSQL throughput by up to 165% and price-performance ratio by up to 120% using Optimized Reads on AWS Graviton4-based R8gd instances
In this post, we demonstrate how your workloads can benefit from upgrading Graviton2-based R6g and R6gd instances to Graviton4-based R8gd instances with Aurora PostgreSQL 17.5 on Aurora I/O-Optimized using an Optimized Reads-enabled tiered cache.