Amazon Aurora Serverless v2 now offers up to 30% performance improvement
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Amazon Aurora Serverless v2 has been updated with significant performance and scalability improvements:
- Up to 30% performance improvement with new platform version 3
- Can now scale from 0 to 256 Aurora Capacity Units (ACUs)
- Each ACU represents approximately 2 GiB of memory with corresponding CPU and networking
- Available in all AWS Regions, including AWS GovCloud (US)
- Existing clusters can upgrade through cluster restart or Blue/Green Deployments
The update enables Aurora Serverless to support more demanding workloads with flexible, on-demand scaling capabilities.
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