Amazon Aurora Serverless makes it easy and
cost-effective to run applications with intermittent or cyclical
usage by auto-scaling database capacity with per-second billing
Thousands of customers, including NTT DOCOMO,
Cognizant, Pagely, CB Insights, California Polytechnic State
University, Currencycloud, and CourseStorm took part in the
preview, saving time and reducing the cost of managing and
operating database servers
Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company
(NASDAQ: AMZN), announced general availability of Amazon Aurora
Serverless. Aurora Serverless is a new deployment option for Amazon
Aurora that automatically starts, scales, and shuts down database
capacity with per-second billing for applications with less
predictable usage patterns. Amazon Aurora Serverless offers
database capacity without the need to provision, scale, and manage
any servers. Aurora Serverless brings the power of the
MySQL-compatible database built for the cloud to applications with
intermittent or cyclical usage patterns without the need to manage
database servers. To get started with Amazon Aurora Serverless,
visit https://aws.amazon.com/aurora/serverless.
Many AWS customers have applications with intermittent or
cyclical usage patterns. For example, retail applications often
experience seasonal spikes. Development and test workloads require
database access only at certain times of the day or week. In
addition, all new applications face unknown usage demands. This
creates a capacity planning dilemma for customers who must either
over-provision database capacity upfront to pay for resources they
will not use or under-provision resources and risk performance
problems and a poor user experience. With Amazon Aurora Serverless,
customers no longer have to provision or manage database capacity.
The database automatically and quickly starts, scales, shuts down,
and starts up again in seconds based on the needs of the workload.
Customers simply create an endpoint through the AWS Management
Console, and Amazon Aurora Serverless handles the rest. Customers
pay by the second for database capacity only when the database is
in use. Amazon Aurora Serverless brings the power of Amazon Aurora,
the fastest growing service in the history of AWS, to applications
that only require intermittent or cyclical database access at a
fraction of the cost.
“More and more customers are moving production applications and
databases from Oracle and SQL Server to Amazon Aurora because it's
a highly available, highly durable, built-for-the-cloud database at
one tenth the cost of the older guard database offerings," said
Raju Gulabani, Vice President, Databases, Analytics, and Machine
Learning, at Amazon Web Services. “With the availability of Aurora
Serverless, we now make it more cost effective for our customers to
run intermittent or cyclical workloads that have less predictable
usage patterns such as development and test workloads or
applications that experience seasonal spikes, making Aurora even
more attractive for every imaginable workload.”
NTT DOCOMO is the largest mobile service provider in Japan,
serving more than 73 million customers. “Our data-based services
are often not used at full capacity, resulting in high database
running costs,” said Tomoyoshi Ohno, Vice President and General
Manager of Innovation Management Department, NTT DOCOMO. “Amazon
Aurora Serverless will allow NTT DOCOMO to reduce operational costs
by matching capacity to actual demand. Because developers can use
Amazon Aurora Serverless just like a traditional MySQL database, it
will be easy to adopt in our service infrastructure."
Pagely is the WordPress hosting leader in innovation, speed,
scalability, and security, with thousands of clients ranging from
the largest tech companies, to universities, creative
agencies, city and state governments, and other large and midsize
businesses. “We are excited by the flexibility that Amazon Aurora
Serverless offers in our current managed WordPress hosting stack,
and the new serverless WordPress application hosting model that it
enables us to pursue,” said Joshua Strebel, Founder and CEO,
Pagely. “Many of our large-scale WordPress sites have unpredictable
database usage. Amazon Aurora Serverless gives us the ability to
lower customer costs for these fluctuating workloads and free
internal resources by eliminating the need for manual or monitored
database resizing. Ultimately this is about saving time, money, and
serving our customers better, and Amazon Aurora Serverless will
help us do that.”
California Polytechnic State University is a nationally-ranked
public university that’s driven by its core philosophy of Learn by
Doing — a powerful combination of academic expertise and hands-on
experience. “Our Learning Management System (LMS) is central to the
student experience at Cal Poly, and we have high standards for
performance, scalability and high availability,” said Alison
Robinson, Associate Vice President, Cal Poly Information Technology
Services. “Amazon Aurora meets our high standards. Given LMS usage
patterns, with peaks during the first week of class, mid-terms, and
finals, we expect to economize by paying only for the resources we
need when we need them and eliminating the need for on-premises
hardware. We also capitalize on the flexibility of the AWS
environment that allows us to automatically shut down development
and test instances when not in use, and spin them up quickly when
needed.”
CB Insights is a private market intelligence firm that
aggregates and analyzes massive amounts of data and uses machine
learning and data visualization to help corporations answer
strategic questions. “Leveraging serverless computing is key to our
system architecture strategy at CB Insights as it allows us to
handle bursts in computation needs in an effective and cost
efficient manner,” said Pal Hoye, Chief Technology Officer of CB
Insights. “We are excited about the opportunity to bring the
serverless model to databases through Amazon Aurora Serverless.
Through the preview program we have had early access to Aurora
Serverless and it has confirmed the applicability for unpredictable
data access scenarios. It’s also a good option for
development/staging databases, which can be shut down when not in
use to achieve additional cost savings.”
Cognizant is one of the world's leading business and IT services
companies, providing technology, consulting, and operations
services to help companies digitally transform their businesses.
“The launch of Amazon Aurora Serverless has been highly anticipated
by the market,” said Arun Varadarajan, Vice President, AI and
Analytics at Cognizant. “It complements several of our offerings,
including Cognizant Adaptive Data Foundation, a solution which
enables the creation of cloud-based, holistic data strategies
requiring insights, scale and speed. Amazon Aurora Serverless will
enhance products like Cognizant Lab Insights, an intelligent,
connected lab performance management solution, because a serverless
database architecture supports the intermittent data usage
requirements of lab environments and provides better flexibility,
scalability, and cost-effectiveness.”
Amazon Aurora Serverless (MySQL-compatible edition) is available
in US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), EU
(Ireland), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo), and will expand to additional
Regions in the coming year.
About Amazon Web Services
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comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. AWS offers over
125 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases,
networking, analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence
(AI), Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, virtual
and augmented reality (VR and AR), media, and application
development, deployment, and management from 55 Availability Zones
(AZs) within 18 geographic regions and one Local Region around the
world, spanning the U.S., Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France,
Germany, India, Ireland, Japan, Korea, Singapore, and the UK. AWS
services are trusted by millions of active customers around the
world—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises,
and leading government agencies—to power their infrastructure, make
them more agile, and lower costs. To learn more about AWS, visit
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