Amazon Aurora pricing and limits

“New AWS customers can get started with Aurora PostgreSQL serverless at no cost with the AWS Free Tier. You get $100 in AWS credits at sign-up to be used across eligible AWS services, including Aurora, for up to 12 months, in both Free and Paid plans, and you can earn an additional $100 in credits, for a total of $200. Free plan gives you access to Aurora PostgreSQL serverless instances with up to 4 ACUs and 1 GiB of storage per cluster.”

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“The account closes on its own 6 months after you open it or when your credits run out, whichever comes first. You won't be charged unless you convert to a Paid plan.”

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“The account closes on its own 6 months after you open it or when your credits run out, whichever comes first.”

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“With Aurora, you only pay for what you use. Aurora charges for database instances and storage, along with any optional features you choose to enable. [...] With Aurora serverless , the minimum database capacity you can set is 0.5 ACUs. [...] 5 ACUs * $0.12 per ACU-hour * 30/60 hour”

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“Aurora charges for database instances and storage, along with any optional features you choose to enable. Aurora PostgreSQL and Aurora MySQL offer On-Demand and Reserved Instance pricing. [...] We want to calculate the compute costs of running this workload on Aurora serverless with the database cluster configured as Aurora Standard and Aurora I/O-Optimized in US East (N. Virginia). [...] 5 ACUs * $0.12 per ACU-hour * 30/60 hour $0.30 [...] 5 ACUs * $0.156 per ACU-hour * 30/60 hour $0.39”

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“Free plan gives you access to Aurora PostgreSQL serverless instances with up to 4 ACUs and 1 GiB of storage per cluster. You can upgrade to the Paid plan at any time to increase capacity up to 256 ACUs and automatically scale storage up to 256 TiB. [...] We want to calculate the storage and I/O cost of running this workload with Aurora Standard and Aurora I/O-Optimized storage in US East (N. Virginia). [...] 80 GB * $0.10 per GB-month (30 days)”

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“1 ACU has approximately 2 GiB of memory with corresponding CPU and networking, similar to that used in Aurora provisioned instances. [...] With Aurora serverless , the minimum database capacity you can set is 0.5 ACUs. [...] Free plan gives you access to Aurora PostgreSQL serverless instances with up to 4 ACUs and 1 GiB of storage per cluster.”

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“By using Amazon RDS Proxy, you can allow your applications to pool and share database connections to improve their ability to scale. [...] RDS Proxy establishes a database connection pool and reuses connections in this pool.”

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“Newer DB engine versions allow a maximum capacity of 256 ACUs, a minimum capacity of 0 ACUs, or both. [...] For the auto-pause and resume capability that's enabled by setting the minimum capacity to 0 ACUs, see Scaling to Zero ACUs with automatic pause and resume for Aurora serverless.”

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“Aurora MySQL Region availability The following table shows the AWS Regions where Aurora MySQL is currently available and the endpoint for each Region. Region Name Region Endpoint Protocol US East (Ohio) us-east-2 rds.us-east-2.amazonaws.com HTTPS US East (N. Virginia) us-east-1 rds.us-east-1.amazonaws.com HTTPS [...] Aurora PostgreSQL Region availability”

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“make each Multi-AZ Cluster available with a Monthly Uptime Percentage as shown in the table below during any monthly billing cycle [...] Less than 99.99% but equal to or greater than 99.0% 10% [...] make each Single-AZ Cluster available with a Single-AZ Uptime Percentage [...] Less than 99.9% but equal to or greater than 99.0% 10%”

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“Amazon Aurora (Aurora) is a fully managed relational database engine that's compatible with MySQL and PostgreSQL. [...] The code, tools, and applications you use today with your existing MySQL and PostgreSQL databases can be used with Aurora.”

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“The default value for this parameter is derived from a formula based on the memory size of the DB instance. [...] Maximum ACUs Default maximum connections on Aurora MySQL Default maximum connections on Aurora PostgreSQL 1 90 189 4 135 823 8 1,000 1,669 [...] However, when you specify a minimum capacity of 0 or 0.5 ACUs on PostgreSQL-compatible DB instances, the maximum value of max_connections is capped at 2,000.”

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“Aurora serverless DB instances can automatically pause after a period with no user connections, and automatically resume when a connection request arrives. [...] To enable the auto-pause behavior for all the Aurora serverless DB instances in an Aurora cluster, you set the minimum capacity value for the cluster to zero ACUs. [...] The minimum interval that you can set is 300 seconds (five minutes). That's the default if you don't specify an interval. The maximum interval that you can set is 86,400 seconds (one day).”

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“Aurora uses a copy-on-write protocol to create a clone. This mechanism uses minimal additional space to create an initial clone. [...] Aurora cloning is especially useful for quickly setting up test environments using your production data, without risking data corruption.”

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“Aurora automated backups are continuous and incremental, so you can quickly restore to any point within the backup retention period. No performance impact or interruption of database service occurs as backup data is being written.”

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“Read replicas per primary Each supported Region: 15 Yes The maximum number of read replicas per primary DB instance. This quota cant be adjusted for Amazon Aurora.”

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“Aurora backs up your cluster volume automatically and retains restore data for the length of the backup retention period. [...] You can specify a backup retention period from 1–35 days when you create or modify a DB cluster.”

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“With Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition, you can backtrack a DB cluster [...] Backtracking "rewinds" the DB cluster to the time you specify. [...] If you mistakenly perform a destructive action, such as a DELETE without a WHERE clause, you can backtrack the DB cluster to a time before the destructive action”

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“Third-party auditors assess the security and compliance of Amazon Aurora as part of multiple AWS compliance programs. These include SOC, PCI, FedRAMP, HIPAA, and others. [...] You can download third-party audit reports using AWS Artifact.”

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“AWS has certification for compliance with ISO/IEC 27001:2022, 27017:2015, and 27018:2019. These certifications are performed by independent third-party auditors.”

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“The services listed below are eligible to create, receive, process, maintain, or transmit electronic protected health information (ePHI). [...] Amazon Aurora AWS B2B Data Interchange AWS Backup AWS Batch Amazon Bedrock Amazon Bedrock”

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“AWS customers can use all AWS services to process personal data [...] in compliance with the GDPR. [...] Customers have control of their customer data. With AWS, customers can: Determine where their customer data will be stored, including the type of storage and geographic region of that storage.”

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“Third-party auditors assess the security and compliance of Amazon Aurora as part of multiple AWS compliance programs. These include SOC, PCI, FedRAMP, HIPAA, and others.”

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“are encrypted at rest using industry standard AES-256 encryption. This encryption happens automatically in the background, securing your data without requiring any action from you. [...] Amazon Aurora uses an AWS Key Management Service key to encrypt these resources.”

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“However, you can choose from three encryption types based on your security and compliance needs: [...] Customer managed key (CMK) – The key is stored in your account and is created, owned, and managed by you. You have full control over the KMS key (AWS KMS charges apply).”

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“AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) is an AWS service that helps an administrator securely control access to AWS resources. IAM administrators control who can be authenticated (signed in) and authorized (have permissions) to use Amazon RDS resources. [...] An IAM role is an identity within your AWS account that has specific permissions. [...] You can authenticate to your DB cluster using IAM database authentication.”

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“Security groups control the access that traffic has in and out of a DB cluster . By default, network access is turned off to a DB cluster . [...] If your DB instance is in a VPC but isn't publicly accessible, you can also use an AWS Site-to-Site VPN connection or an Direct Connect connection to access it from a private network.”

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“The supported VPC tenancy depends on the DB instance class used by your Aurora PostgreSQL DB clusters. With default VPC tenancy, the DB cluster runs on shared hardware. With dedicated VPC tenancy, the DB cluster runs on a dedicated hardware instance. [...] All other Aurora PostgreSQL DB instance classes support both default and dedicated VPC tenancy.”

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