Reduce Amazon Aurora costs with these tips
Amazon Aurora cost saving tips
Optimize your Amazon Aurora costs with these tips
Implement Serverless
Eliminate capacity management and pay only for what you use. This can save up to 90% of costs. You must however be aware that serverless is more expensive if you are using the database long term. Serverless databases are only cost effective for highly variable workloads.
Reserved DB Instances
You can purchase reserved database instances from AWS. This can save you up to 70% compared to on demand costs. Depending on the length of the contract and commitment. Amazon Aurora reserved DB instances have the added benefit that they are flexible.
Other Costs
Consider your database backup costs in the total cost of ownership as well. For example, backing up an Aurora Database Cluster is four times cheaper than backing up a regular RDS database. Also, Aurora is more performant than RDS, so you need smaller instances.
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Service information & pricing
About Amazon Aurora
- About Amazon Aurora
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Amazon Aurora, a high-performance managed database, is compatible with MySQL & PostgreSQL. Features include Multi-AZ availability, global replication, easy migration, built-in security, continuous backups, and AWS integration.
- Amazon Aurora pricing
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Amazon Aurora is a speedy, reliable database service with flexible pricing. Aurora Standard is budget-friendly, I/O-Optimized boosts performance, with On-Demand, Reserved, and Serverless options for savings. Extra charges for Aurora Global Database, backup storage.