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Evaluating the right fit for your Amazon Aurora workloads: provisioned or Serverless v2

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This article discusses the differences between Amazon Aurora provisioned instances and Aurora Serverless v2, and how to determine which is best suited for your workload.

Specifically, the article covers:

  • Important concepts like clusters, instances, provisioned instances, and Aurora Serverless v2
  • Capacity and pricing models for provisioned vs. Serverless v2 instances
  • Version support, features, and upgrades for Serverless v2
  • Performance considerations such as minimum/maximum ACUs, buffer pool management
  • High availability and failover handling with Serverless v2
  • Using Serverless v2 for Aurora Global Database secondary regions
  • Testing and validation approaches for Serverless v2
  • Guidelines on choosing between provisioned and Serverless v2 for different workload patterns


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