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AWS has Aurora Serverless (https://aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora/serverless/ https://aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora/serverless/) for that purpose with MySQL and Postgres
by steelaz 7y ago
AWS has Aurora Serverless (https://aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora/serverless/ https://aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora/serverless/) for that purpose with MySQL and Postgres compatible engines. But I haven't heard anyone using it for side projects yet.
- kevinsundar 7y agoThey also have RDS Proxy (https://aws.amazon.com/rds/proxy/ https://aws.amazon.com/rds/proxy/) that lets you pool connections from tons of lambda instances in order not to overwhelm your DB when scaling up.
- ec109685 7y agoI wonder where the threshold is that the proxy is beneficial. MySQL is actually really good at handling new connections.
- chris_st 7y agoNote that you can either run Aurora Serverless constantly (at a cost of about $43 a month) or have ~30 second startup times if the instance has timed out (~15 minutes).