Intuit’s implementation of Amazon Aurora mixed-configuration cluster: Achieving high availability, disaster recovery, and up to 55% cost savings

This article discusses Intuit's implementation of Amazon Aurora mixed-configuration cluster, which helped them achieve high availability, disaster recovery, and up to 55% cost savings.

Specifically, the article covers:

• Intuit's technical requirements for Aurora clusters, including high availability, read scaling, disaster recovery, cost-effectiveness, and increased resource utilization.
• Overview of Aurora Serverless v2 and its benefits, such as reduced operational overhead, increased resource utilization and cost savings, and increased scaling capabilities.
• Architecture of an Aurora mixed-configuration cluster, where provisioned and Serverless v2 instances can coexist, enabling cost savings while meeting high availability and disaster recovery requirements.
• Intuit's implementation of Aurora global mixed-configuration clusters, replacing provisioned readers and disaster recovery instances with Serverless v2 instances.
• Benefits observed by Intuit after implementing mixed-configuration clusters, including reduced guesswork, scalability, fine-grained scaling, efficient resource utilization, cost savings of up to 55%, and meeting high availability and disaster recovery SLAs.
• Conclusion and Intuit's plans to extend the solution further by converting provisioned readers in the primary region to Serverless v2.