Author: Andrew Love

April, 2026: Aurora Serverless v2 has been renamed Aurora serverless. No action required. This post is a continuation of Automate benchmark tests for Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL. To recap, optimizing a database is an important activity for new and existing application workloads. You need to take cost, operations, performance, security, and reliability into consideration. Conducting benchmarks […]

You may have a workload where you want to automate scaling, such as a reporting application with unpredictable increases in queries, or an application with database utilization increasing at predictable times like end-of-month reporting. Scaling a database to appropriately handle workload demand is important to help manage cost, operations, performance, security, and reliability. With Amazon […]

Optimizing a database is an important activity for new and existing application workloads. You need to take cost, operations, performance, security, and reliability into consideration. Conducting benchmark tests help with these considerations. With Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition, you can run multiple benchmark tests with different transaction characteristics matching your data access patterns. In this post, […]