Aurora Serverless: Faster performance, enhanced scaling, and still scales down to zero

This article announces performance and scaling improvements to Amazon Aurora Serverless, including platform version 4 with enhanced capabilities.

• Platform version 4 delivers up to 30% better performance than previous versions
• Aurora Serverless now scales 45% faster from 0.5 to 256 ACUs by default
• Enhanced scaling algorithm intelligently responds to resource competition among concurrent tasks
• Platform version 4 achieves 32.9% faster workload completion with 5.1% lower ACU consumption
• Continues to scale down to zero when not in use, eliminating overprovisioning costs
• New clusters automatically launch on platform version 4; existing clusters can upgrade via maintenance actions
• Ideal for agentic AI applications with unpredictable, bursty workload patterns

Aurora Serverless v2 platform version 4 provides significant performance and cost improvements through better baseline performance and smarter autoscaling, with no additional charges.