Just curious, does Aurora scale down at all in price, i.e. if I have a test instance that's hardly ever used, does it ever end up being cheaper than a classic RDS instance?
Xata is (like Heroku) based on Aurora, but offers database branching and has different pricing. That should be ideal for lightly-used test instances, because you only pay for storage, and 15GB are included in the free tier.
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/AuroraUserGuide...
Just wondering, why is that?