Amazon Aurora Serverless v2 now supports up to 256 ACUs
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Amazon has increased the maximum capacity for Aurora Serverless v2 databases to 256 ACUs (Aurora Capacity Units), allowing customers to use it for more demanding workloads.
Specifically, the article covers:
- Aurora Serverless v2 now supports up to 256 ACUs, where each ACU is approximately 2 GiB of memory, corresponding CPU, and networking.
- You can specify the capacity range, and the database scales within this range to meet your application's needs.
- The higher maximum capacity of 256 ACUs (512 GiB) can be enabled for new or existing clusters with a few clicks in the AWS Management Console.
- It is supported for Aurora PostgreSQL versions 13.13+, 14.10+, 15.5+, 16.1+, and Aurora MySQL 3.06+.
- Aurora Serverless is an on-demand, automatic scaling configuration for Amazon Aurora, adjusting capacity in fine-grained increments.
- Pricing details, region availability, documentation, and steps to get started are provided.
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