AWS Amazon Aurora Serverless V2 - Features of AWS Amazon Aurora Serverless V2 service
Amazon Web Services launched a new service called AWS Amazon Aurora Serverless V2, which is more advanced service and comes with the latest enterprise features for handling data for your applications. In this section we are going to explore the features of AWS Amazon Aurora Serverless V2 and understand the business benefits of this service for clients.
What is AWS Amazon Aurora Serverless?
The AWS Amazon Aurora Serverless is highly scalable on-demand configuration for the Amazon Aurora which support auto scaling. The Amazon Aurora Serverless is very highly intelligent service that can auto start, shut down and even scale to meet the business load. It can also shutdown if there is no load and start when there is requirement of this service by the application. This service allows the client to run database on AWS without managing the any database capacity.
Traditionally the database service is managed by the skilled resources of the company and it requires a lot of skills and consistent monitoring. All these activities are time consuming and most of the time server is underutilized or over utilized, which leads to the loss to the company in both the cases. With the help of Aurora Serverless you can define your requirements and based on the requirement this service will create database for you. The Aurora Serverless allows you to migrate between standard and Serverless configuration with few simple steps. You can do all these within Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) console.
The Amazon Aurora Serverless makes database management fully automated and without the hassle of managing the physical server. This gives piece of the mind to the business and they can now focus more on their business.
What are the features of Amazon Aurora Serverless v2?
The Amazon Aurora Serverless v2 is now available for the production use and comes with the more robust features. Here we will see the new features and improvements of Amazon Aurora Serverless v2, which is now robust service ready to work on the production servers.
Amazon Aurora Serverless v2 is designed to be highly efficient, it can instantly scales to hundreds of thousands of transactions in a fraction of seconds, which makes if very fast service. During the scaling up process system adjusts the capacity in fine-grained increments to use the resources efficiently. The Amazon Aurora Serverless v2 can save upto 90% of database cost for the client as compared to traditional means of server provisioning.
There is great saving for the company's as they just pay for the capacity their applications uses. All services scale-up, scale-down, shout-down and start is automatic, and handled very efficiently. This also remove the sever maintenance efforts for the client.
The Amazon Aurora Serverless v2 is designed to support all shorts of database workloads of today's demanding applications. This service can be used in development, test and in the production environments with ease. This service is good for the applications having infrequent, intermittent, or unpredictable workloads. This can also be used with application where the loads are unpredictable in advance.
The Amazon Aurora Serverless v2 supports:
- Full breadth of Aurora features
- Support for global databases
- Multi A-Z deployments support
- Support for the read replicas
The Amazon Aurora is compatible with the Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition and PostgreSQL-Compatible Editions. If you are using these databases then this service is for you.
What are the benefits of using Amazon Aurora Serverless v2?
Here are the top benefits of using this service:
- High Scalable - Can scale instantly to
handle hundreds to thousands of transaction in fraction of
seconds.
- Highly available - It supports cloning,
multi A-Z and read replicas.
- Cost effective - Client only pay for the
resources their application uses.
- Simple - Self managed and there is no need
of complex provisioning and database management efforts.
- Transparent - The Amazon Aurora Serverless
V2 can scale instantly to meet the application requirement.
There won't be any disruption in the incoming application
requests.
- Durable - Service is designed to be durable. It protects your data against data loss through various fault-tolerant and self healing techniques. There is is six-way replication of data for full data protection.
