Today in the Large Instances Working Group call, we learned from Raccoon Gang about Amazon Aurora Serverless. They have been using it and found it reduces costs by about 20%. I’m thinking that some of our AWS clients may be very interested - in particular the one with major exam spikes. Apparently the benefit is that it can auto-scale very quickly, so if you have spiky demand, it will be smaller and cheaper most of the time, and “scales instantly to hundreds of thousands of transactions in a fraction of a second” as needed.
@Agrendalath FYI