--- title: Reducing Amazon Aurora Costs | daily.dev description: Learn how to reduce Amazon Aurora costs by optimizing non-production environments, using the correct type of I/O access, right-sizing provisioned instance... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/reducing-amazon-aurora-costs-uqwihx0dx twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Reducing Amazon Aurora Costs | daily.dev og:description: Learn how to reduce Amazon Aurora costs by optimizing non-production environments, using the correct type of I/O access, right-sizing provisioned instance... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/reducing-amazon-aurora-costs-uqwihx0dx og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/UqwiHx0dx.png og:image:alt: Reducing Amazon Aurora Costs 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. # Reducing Amazon Aurora Costs **[TigerData \(Creators of TimescaleDB\)](https://daily.dev/sources/tigerdata)** · 6 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Learn how to reduce Amazon Aurora costs by optimizing non-production environments, using the correct type of I/O access, right-sizing provisioned instance types, trimming backups, offloading large objects to Amazon S3, and optimizing SQL queries. Timescale provides a cost-effective alternative for time-series data. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: --- Tags: [#aws](https://daily.dev/tags/aws), [#database](https://daily.dev/tags/database), [#sql](https://daily.dev/tags/sql), [#aurora](https://daily.dev/tags/aurora), [#finops](https://daily.dev/tags/finops) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/reducing-amazon-aurora-costs-uqwihx0dx) ```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":"Reducing Amazon Aurora Costs","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/reducing-amazon-aurora-costs-uqwihx0dx","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/reducing-amazon-aurora-costs-uqwihx0dx"},"datePublished":"2024-02-02T17:07:52.187Z","dateModified":"2024-05-09T09:21:59.549Z","description":"Learn how to reduce Amazon Aurora costs by optimizing non-production environments, using the correct type of I/O access, right-sizing provisioned instance...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/a42fab0361305d9cb9d720120eb642ec?_a=AQAEufR","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/a42fab0361305d9cb9d720120eb642ec?_a=AQAEufR","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"TigerData (Creators of TimescaleDB)","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":"TigerData (Creators of TimescaleDB)","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--bsnY3goS--/f_auto/v1756960371/squads/timescale?_a=BAMClqZW0","url":"https://daily.dev/squads/tigerdata"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/reducing-amazon-aurora-costs-uqwihx0dx","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":1},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"aws,database,sql,aurora,finops","timeRequired":"PT6M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"TigerData (Creators of TimescaleDB)","item":"https://daily.dev/squads/tigerdata"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Reducing Amazon Aurora Costs"}]} ```