Amazon Aurora | Hardware and Scaling

Question 1

How do I optimize my database workload for Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL?

Hardware and Scaling

Amazon Aurora | Database

Answer 1

Amazon Aurora is designed to be compatible with PostgreSQL 9.6, so that existing PostgreSQL applications and tools can run without requiring modification. However, one area where Amazon Aurora improves upon PostgreSQL is with highly concurrent workloads. In order to maximize your workload’s throughput on Amazon Aurora, we recommend building your applications to drive a large number of concurrent queries and transactions.

Question 2

What are the minimum and maximum storage limits of an Amazon Aurora database?

Hardware and Scaling

Amazon Aurora | Database

Answer 2

The minimum storage is 10GB. Based on your database usage, your Amazon Aurora storage will automatically grow, up to 64 TB, in 10GB increments with no impact to database performance. There is no need to provision storage in advance.