AWS Aurora Serverless v2 Minimum Capacity Reduced to 0 ACU — Near-Zero Idle Cost

AWS reduced Aurora Serverless v2 minimum capacity to 0 ACU (from 0.5 ACU). At 0 ACU the cluster is paused and costs only storage. Resume time: 5-15 seconds. 0.5 ACU costs $0.06/hr — $43/month just to keep warm.

TCOIQ: For dev, test and staging databases that are idle nights and weekends, Aurora Serverless v2 at 0 ACU minimum is now the most cost-effective option. Storage-only cost when idle. For production databases with consistent traffic, provisioned Aurora remains cheaper at scale.