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 performance for agentic AI and bursty workloads.
- Scales up to 16 ACUs per second, reaching maximum 256 ACUs as workload grows
- Automatically scales down to zero when workload finishes, optimizing costs
- Ideal for agentic AI applications with burst activity and 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 platform version 4
Aurora Serverless now provides faster scaling and cost efficiency for dynamic, unpredictable workloads.
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