We wanted to switch to Aurora in our company about a year ago. We tried serverless first but decided against it. We ended up using Aurora provisioned. Main reas

We wanted to switch to Aurora in our company about a year ago. We tried serverless first but decided against it. We ended up using Aurora provisioned. Main reason was cost. Aurora Serverless was 20%-40% more expensive than Aurora provisioned. One area where Aurora is superior to non-Aurora in AWS is replication lag. When running non-Aurora MySQL servers, we had replica lag sometimes reach an hour making read replicas useless. With Aurora provisioned, replica lag is always under 30ms. If your app is database heavy and you end-up using database pretty much 24/7, don't fall for serverless hype and go with Aurora Provisioned.