Viktar Patotski ·
· Cloud & Cost
· 10 min read Amazon Aurora Cost: Where It Saves You and Where It Quietly Burns You
Aurora can be cheaper than RDS or twice the price, and the deciding line item is the one nobody watches: I/O. Here is how the bill is built, when I/O-Optimized and Serverless v2 actually save money, and the traps that turn a managed database into your biggest surprise.