AWS Cloud Architecture•Part 4: Storage, Content Delivery & Databases (36 - 50)
Aurora Serverless v2.
In Simple Words: Scales database compute capacity up and down instantly in fractions of an Aurora Capacity Unit (ACU) within milliseconds in response to real-time traffic spikes, without dropping database connections.
hcl
resource "aws_rds_cluster" "aurora_serverless" {
cluster_identifier = "serverless-cluster"
engine = "aurora-postgresql"
serverlessv2_scaling_configuration {
min_capacity = 0.5 # Scales down to save cost during night
max_capacity = 16.0 # Scales up for peak bursts
}
}