Re:Serverless Aurora
by inopinatus on Monday December 04, 2017 @06:05PM
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On the other hand, for the next step up, e.g. small production services with spiky workloads, it looks great, assuming I've read the product details correctly.
Case in point, I have one service that doesn't usually need a lot of DB grunt, but has occasionally spiky and unpredictable read-heavy data extractions. It runs happily on a multi-AZ pair of db.t2.small instances, for which we currently pay $0.104/hr (ap-southeast-2). Frankly it could mostly run on a db.t2.micro but we occasionally need the headroom of the bigger instance and the availability of multi-AZ. So when Serverless Aurora comes here it'd be a shoo-in, being both cheaper and more scaleable, and with more replicas to boot.
Case in point, I have one service that doesn't usually need a lot of DB grunt, but has occasionally spiky and unpredictable read-heavy data extractions. It runs happily on a multi-AZ pair of db.t2.small instances, for which we currently pay $0.104/hr (ap-southeast-2). Frankly it could mostly run on a db.t2.micro but we occasionally need the headroom of the bigger instance and the availability of multi-AZ. So when Serverless Aurora comes here it'd be a shoo-in, being both cheaper and more scaleable, and with more replicas to boot.