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Re:PlanetScale is now generally available by topspin on Tuesday November 16, 2021 @12:21PM (#29243319)
"Serverless Database"

It's just a database service. You don't run the servers. You pay someone to do that and you just connect to it and use it and someone else maintains the servers, storage, scaling, backups, patches, etc., according to some SLA and other terms.

There are indeed servers somewhere. "Serverless" is misleading cloud speak for the otherwise easily understood concept of a service.

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Re:PlanetScale is now generally available by alvarlagerlof on Tuesday November 16, 2021 @01:10PM (#29244142)
They shut down when not in use.
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Re:PlanetScale is now generally available by haggy102 on Wednesday November 17, 2021 @12:49AM (#29249638)
They almost never shut down the actual VMs, they are simply re-allocated. (Semi)Auto scaling exists behind the scenes but once a provider becomes popular enough the VMs become more expensive to stop.
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