Amazon Aurora Serverless V2 scale to 0

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It's great for development environments or scheduled jobs, the 15 second start up time limits it for most other things I'd imagine. Is it still minimum cost of ~45/month for the lowest instance? I guess this will help that but it would be great if it was priced closer to V1.

(Disclaimer: Neon employee)

The 15 seconds start up time limits the utility for production workloads indeed, specifically for multi-tenant apps looking to provide very strong per-tenant isolation. If you need Instant Postgres, check out Neon: https://neon.tech/demos/instant-postgres.

Finally true serverless. But how will it handle like open connections like a pool and no queries sent to it? eg Container 24/7 available but DB should spin up then needed.

There are some scenarios when an Aurora Serverless v2 instance doesn’t automatically pause:

> If user-initiated connections are open, the instance doesn’t automatically pause

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