Aurora and Aurora Serverless

Amazon Aurora is a fully managed, cost-effective, and high-performance relational database. It allows us to use the power and flexibility of popular open-source databases like MySQL and PostgreSQL with enhanced throughput. We can create and configure Amazon Aurora using the same Amazon RDS Management Console.

The configuration of Amazon Aurora includes a DB cluster that can consist of one or multiple DB instances. Even a single DB instance will be a part of a DB cluster because of the underlying storage architecture of the Amazon Aurora. Cluster storage consisting of multiple nodes is associated with the DB cluster that can span multiple availability zones, and the cluster’s data is copied to all the nodes. ...