Happy Aurora Postgres serverless customer here. Be sure to use pgbouncer (self hosted, but it needs minimal babysitting) if you intend to use it in a serverless

Happy Aurora Postgres serverless customer here. Be sure to use pgbouncer (self hosted, but it needs minimal babysitting) if you intend to use it in a serverless environment (and even if you are not, the benefits of not having to worry about connection pool exhaustion are still worth it). AWS's proxy won't work too well with prepared statements connection pooling (something known as connection pinning). EDIT: and yes, it's not cheap