Amazon Aurora serverless now scales faster to support agentic AI and other bursty workloads
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This article announces enhanced scaling capabilities for Amazon Aurora serverless, enabling faster scale-up to support agentic AI and bursty workloads.
- Reaches up to 12 ACUs within one second during scale-up events
- Continues scaling up to 256 ACUs as workload demands increase
- Automatically scales down to zero when workload finishes
- Ideal for agentic AI applications with unpredictable traffic patterns
- Enabled by default on platform versions 3 and 4 with no configuration needed
- Existing clusters on versions 1 and 2 can upgrade to version 4
Aurora serverless now provides automatic capacity scaling for bursty workloads, ensuring you only pay for resources actually used.
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