AWS Cancels Serverless Postgres Service That Scales to Zero

AWS has notified clients of its Amazon Aurora Serverless v1 service that it’ll stop supporting the providing on the finish of 2024. Changing v1 within the Aurora Serverless vary, which helps Postgres and MySQL databases, shall be v2, which gives some benefits but in addition one huge drawback: It doesn’t scale all the best way right down to zero.

Amazon Aurora is the vastly profitable relational database service launched by AWS in 2014. It debuted with MySQL compatibility, and help for Postgres was added in 2017. The database, which is a part of AWS’s Relational Database Service (RDS), has been so extensively adopted that, a few years in the past, AWS declared Aurora the quickest rising service ever within the historical past of the corporate. Contemplating the continued momentum behind Postgres, it’s possible the AWS service has continued to develop at a breakneck pace.

In 2018, AWS rolled out a serverless model of Aurora, which enabled the database to scale up and down in response to utility demand. Many purchasers appreciated that Aurora may scale all the best way right down to zero–primarily turning itself off–when there was no demand for the database, and robotically wake itself up when known as into responsibility.

That perform was a characteristic of Aurora Serverless v1.  Final week, AWS started notifying clients that Aurora Serverless V1 would stop being provided as of December 31, 2024.

“We’re solely saying the tip of help for Serverless v1,” the observe from AWS learn, in accordance with a number of clients who shared the observe on the Web. “Aurora Serverless v2 continues to be supported. We suggest that you just proactively improve your databases operating Amazon Aurora Serverless v1 to Amazon Aurora Serverless v2 at your comfort earlier than December 31, 2024.”

Aurora Serverless v2, which AWS unveiled in April 2022, does have a number of options that v1 lacks, together with help for replicas, logical replication, and–because of a significant replace AWS delivered simply over a month in the past at re:Invent–world databases that may scale as much as help million of writes per second.

Aurora Serverless v2 additionally sports activities the brand new RDS knowledge API, which AWS unveiled final week and which permits clients to hook up with the Aurora database by way of REST (solely Postgres is supported in the mean time).

“Now you can entry these Aurora clusters by way of a safe HTTP endpoint and run SQL statements with out the usage of database drivers and with out managing connections,” AWS says in its December 21, 2023 announcement.

Nevertheless, Aurora Serverless v2 lacks one huge characteristic that is part of Aurora Serverless v1: The aptitude to scale all the best way right down to zero. That rubs some Aurora clients the mistaken manner.

“Goodbye to a relational database that would idle right down to zero by itself,” wrote Ganesh Swaminathan, head of cloud options structure at JPMorgan Chase & Co, in a tweet on X (previously Twitter). “Hey to double the invoice (or extra)…”

“I’m fairly disenchanted that Aurora Serverless V2 can’t appear to scale to 0 ACU,” writes a Reddit consumer referred to as zmose. “Ya know, what ‘serverless’ is meant to imply? I believe it finally ends up being round like $50/month at minimal.”

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