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Amazon Aurora serverless now scales faster to support agentic AI and other bursty workloads

Published

5 August 2026

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technology

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AI InfrastructureCloud Infrastructure

Geography

United States

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Read at aws.amazon.com

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Amazon Aurora Serverless now scales up to 12 ACUs within a second and up to 256 ACUs as needed, optimising for bursty workloads like agentic AI with automatic scale-down to zero when idle, making capacity management more efficient and cost-effective.

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◆ The Wire takeaway

Cloud developers working on AI workloads now face less friction scaling databases dynamically, enabling you to optimise performance and cost for AI applications with bursty and unpredictable demand patterns.

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