Aurora is still ultimately a standard cluster of MySQL (or other) instances on the front end — it's just the storage engine that's significantly different. Fro

Aurora is still ultimately a standard cluster of MySQL (or other) instances on the front end — it's just the storage engine that's significantly different. From the docs, the largest instance size defaults to the recommend maximum of 6,000 connections (16k maximum) per server (and only one write-based sever and 15 read replicas) https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/AuroraUserGuide/AuroraMySQL.Managing.Performance.html https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/AuroraUserGuide...