Amazon Aurora Serverless V2 Is Finally Here And Its (Mostly) Awesome

In this video, learn about the recent announcement of Amazon Aurora Serverless V2 for General Availability. Learn about what Aurora Serverless V2 has to offer and why it's such a huge improvement over V1. Finally, learn about two critical problems with Aurora Serverless V2 that may throw a wrench into your adoption plans.

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[tomontheinternet]

This video answered all of my questions. I tried out v2 a little while back and was surprised that I was getting billed for a database I thought I wasn't using.

I'm excited for the day when I can have a serverless application using a serverless database that both scale to zero so that my side projects are pretty much free.

Thanks for the awesome video

[ppmedel]

a very helpful video and information about Aurora serverless v2 thanks!

[ruggedland]

No Cloudformation support for now is another huge drawback for v2

[KimcheeOnATaco]

Been using V1 in production for over a year. The scaling is clunky and we end up needing to provision ahead of time and scale up in advance at times which becomes costly.

Hoping V2 can help solve these issues for us!

[thedatajiujitsuguy]

Great video as always! Any indication from AWS on when the Data API will be available? It seems like a major downside.

[kvsantosh]

"Pay some nominal cost even if you dont use it" seems the trend AWS serverless is taking. Isnt this the case with Lambda's as well if you provision the capacity?

[christopher]

With v2 aren't you able to connect to your db from a sql client like pg admin for the postgres engine version of aurora? Whereas with v1 I think you can't connect to your db at all through a sql client

[anushaalluri-lc]

Do we have Terraform module for Aurora PostgreSQL Serverless v2, can you please explain the same.

[smetlitzky]

Thank you so much for your videos :). Just spent the whole day trying to get a Lambda function being able to accept HTTP and then get data from Aurora and return JSON…. Kept getting errors and I believe it relates to “© Note Currently, you can't use the Data API with Aurora Serverless v2 DB instances.” - which you just pointed out. How do we get around this? :). We do this at the moment to call dynamoDB but can’t do it with Aurora?? Help :)

[thorstenc.]

Hello, I have the problem : I adjusted Aurora serverless 2 with ACU variability, but it is always on highest level. It don't scale down. So the bill gets very high for this service. Is this an error of Aurora? Does it make a price difference if I select "Production" or "Development/Test"?

[janikn]

Is Aurora Serverless v2 serverless? If it is, I'm going to deploy it next to a couple of serverless EC2 instances.

[jadamster]

Not all regions in AWS have RDS aurora serverless available. When will it be made available to all regions ?

serverless v2 - will migrate due to the added features like RDS proxy and Global Databases etc.
serverless v1 - has reduce our DB environment costs by 50%, we using it in production no issues since it was released.

Will gladly migrate v2 if it remains feasible with regards to cost.

[mbrochh]

hmm.. v2 seems like one step forward, three steps back... all in all I still think that Aurora isn't really useful for any kind of real world application. Still a long way to go.

[jsudduy]

aws aurura serverless is fake..
40 usd for the smallest scale on idle
btw i've been using aws for a long time i'd say azure serverless is better it has true pause

[sudeshagrawal]

What about the free tier usage? I don't see a way to select db.t2.micro instance