Faster scaling for Aurora serverless to support agentic AI and other spiky workloads

Aurora serverless now automatically adds 12 Aurora Capacity Units to its current capacity within a second, and continues scaling to 256 ACUs as your workload grows. In this post, we show how an Aurora serverless cluster responds to a sudden workload spike, and compare its throughput against a provisioned db.r8g.xlarge instance using benchmark data.