--- title: Amazon Aurora serverless now scales faster to support... description: Amazon Aurora Serverless now scales up to 12 ACUs within one second during scale-up events, with continued scaling up to 256 ACUs and automatic scale-down to... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/amazon-aurora-serverless-now-scales-faster-to-support-agentic-ai-and-other-bursty-workloads-vncbsli9v twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Amazon Aurora serverless now scales faster to support agentic AI and other bursty workloads | daily.dev og:description: Amazon Aurora Serverless now scales up to 12 ACUs within one second during scale-up events, with continued scaling up to 256 ACUs and automatic scale-down to... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/amazon-aurora-serverless-now-scales-faster-to-support-agentic-ai-and-other-bursty-workloads-vncbsli9v og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/VNCbsli9v.png og:image:alt: Amazon Aurora serverless now scales faster to support agentic AI and other bursty workloads og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Amazon Aurora serverless now scales faster to support agentic AI and other bursty workloads **[AWS](https://daily.dev/sources/aws)** · 2 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Amazon Aurora Serverless now scales up to 12 ACUs within one second during scale-up events, with continued scaling up to 256 ACUs and automatic scale-down to zero when idle. This improvement is enabled by default on platform versions 3 and 4, with no configuration changes needed. It is particularly suited for agentic AI workloads characterized by bursty traffic and long idle periods. Clusters on older platform versions can upgrade directly to version 4 to benefit. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### How fast does Amazon Aurora serverless scale up capacity now? Aurora serverless can now reach up to 12 ACUs within a second during a scale-up event, then continue scaling up to 256 ACUs as workload demand grows. It automatically scales back down to zero once the workload finishes, making it well suited for bursty, unpredictable traffic such as agentic AI applications with long idle windows. _daily.dev surfaces database scaling updates like this for teams sizing infrastructure around bursty AI workloads._ ### Do I need to change any settings to get faster Aurora serverless scaling? No configuration changes are required. The faster scale-up behavior is enabled by default on Aurora serverless clusters running platform version 3 or 4. Clusters still on platform version 1 or 2 need to upgrade directly to platform version 4 to get the improvement, and the platform version can be checked in the AWS console or via the RDS API's ServerlessV2PlatformVersion parameter. _Track platform version requirements like this on daily.dev before planning an Aurora upgrade._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Faster scaling for Aurora serverless to support agentic AI and other spiky workloads](https://daily.dev/posts/faster-scaling-for-aurora-serverless-to-support-agentic-ai-and-other-spiky-workloads-i3nfbsw99) · AWS Database Blog · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Amazon Aurora serverless: Up to 30% better performance, smarter scaling, and still scales to zero](https://daily.dev/posts/amazon-aurora-serverless-up-to-30-better-performance-smarter-scaling-and-still-scales-to-zero-w4cujeoyl) · AWS · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [AWS Improves Aurora Serverless: 45% Faster Ramp-Up, 30% Higher Throughput](https://daily.dev/posts/aws-improves-aurora-serverless-45-faster-ramp-up-30-higher-throughput-k6d75rgau) · InfoQ · 23 upvotes · 0 comments - [Amazon Aurora DSQL now supports cluster creation in seconds](https://daily.dev/posts/amazon-aurora-dsql-now-supports-cluster-creation-in-seconds-nnwjs9fzt) · AWS · 3 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#aws](https://daily.dev/tags/aws), [#backend](https://daily.dev/tags/backend), [#agentic-ai](https://daily.dev/tags/agentic-ai) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/amazon-aurora-serverless-now-scales-faster-to-support-agentic-ai-and-other-bursty-workloads-vncbsli9v) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Amazon Aurora serverless now scales faster to support agentic AI and other bursty workloads","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/amazon-aurora-serverless-now-scales-faster-to-support-agentic-ai-and-other-bursty-workloads-vncbsli9v","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/amazon-aurora-serverless-now-scales-faster-to-support-agentic-ai-and-other-bursty-workloads-vncbsli9v"},"datePublished":"2026-08-05T18:07:15.737Z","dateModified":"2026-09-14T08:22:48.834Z","description":"Amazon Aurora Serverless now scales up to 12 ACUs within one second during scale-up events, with continued scaling up to 256 ACUs and automatic scale-down to...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--foaA6JGU--/f_auto/v1722860399/public/Placeholder%2004","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--foaA6JGU--/f_auto/v1722860399/public/Placeholder%2004","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"AWS","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"AWS","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/aws","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/aws"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/amazon-aurora-serverless-now-scales-faster-to-support-agentic-ai-and-other-bursty-workloads-vncbsli9v","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":1},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"aws,backend,agentic-ai","timeRequired":"PT2M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"AWS","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/aws"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Amazon Aurora serverless now scales faster to support agentic AI and other bursty workloads"}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"FAQPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/amazon-aurora-serverless-now-scales-faster-to-support-agentic-ai-and-other-bursty-workloads-vncbsli9v#faq","mainEntity":[{"@type":"Question","name":"How fast does Amazon Aurora serverless scale up capacity now?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"Aurora serverless can now reach up to 12 ACUs within a second during a scale-up event, then continue scaling up to 256 ACUs as workload demand grows. 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