Faster scaling for Aurora serverless to support agentic AI and other spiky workloads
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This article announces faster scaling improvements for Aurora serverless, enabling it to add 12 Aurora Capacity Units (ACUs) within a second to handle sudden workload spikes from agentic AI, SaaS batch jobs, and viral traffic.
- Aurora serverless now scales 12 ACUs in under one second, continuing to 256 ACUs as demand grows
- Instant scaling is non-disruptive with no query stalls during capacity transitions
- Improvement enabled by default on platform versions 3 and 4 with no configuration required
- Benchmark shows Aurora serverless matches provisioned db.r8g.xlarge performance after ~1 minute of scaling
- Automatically scales to zero capacity when idle, charging only for used capacity
Aurora serverless delivers provisioned-class performance for unpredictable workloads without managing fixed capacity or paying for idle resources.
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