AWS Aurora DB Clusters - Feature Comparison

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Feature	Aurora Provisioned	Aurora Serverless v1	Aurora Serverless v2 (Proposed)
Use Cases		* Infrequently-used applications * Development and test databases * Variable Workloads * Unpredictable Workloads * Multi-tenant applications	* Variable Workloads * Unpredictable Workloads * Provision cluster for each customer (no noisy neighbour) * Auto scale based on demand * No DB fleet management * No separate DB for reads and writes
Scaling	* Storage autoscaling – Max 128 TB * Replica autoscaling based on CPU/connections	Doubles ACU’s for each scale activity	Instant/Incremental scaling based on demand
Performance Insights	✅	❌	❌
Proxy	✅	❌	❌
Backtracking (rewind to a specific time)	✅	❌	✅
Cloning	✅		✅
Global Databases	✅	❌	✅
Multi-AZ	✅		✅
Multi-Master	✅	❌	❌
Read Replicas	✅ Up to 15 Read replicas (max connections based on instance type)	❌	✅ Up to 15 readers of 256 ACU (6000 connections) each Max connections: 96,000
Mixed configuration (Write in provisioned mode, Read in serverless mode)	** With serverless v2	❌	✅
IAM Based DB Authentication	✅	❌	❌
Data API	✅	✅	❌ (** may be supported)
MySQL Import/Export to S3	✅	❌	❌
Lambda Function Invoke	✅	❌	❌
Console Query Editor	❌	✅	❌ (** may be supported)
Restoring Snapshots from Aurora Non-Serverless clusters		✅	❌ (** may be supported)
CDC	✅	❌

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