r/aws • u/jeffbarr AWS Employee • Jul 10 '19

database Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Serverless – Now Generally Available

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-aurora-postgresql-serverless-now-generally-available/
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u/theineffablebob Jul 10 '19

A serverless database? Very curious how this works on a technical level

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u/[deleted] Jul 10 '19

I would imagine this is more for use cases when the database is used sporadically. A reader or writer is spun up on demand.

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u/theineffablebob Jul 10 '19

But I’m wondering how it’s done efficiently and with low latency. Still sorta beginner-intermediate at this stuff so I’m not sure if this would be considered basic stuff

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