RDS

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• 7 Sep 2026

  Aurora Serverless v2 pricing: idle cost (2026)

  An idle Aurora Serverless v2 cluster bills its minimum ACUs on every writer and reader. RDS Proxy, replication or one open connection stops it pausing to zero.

• 9 Aug 2026

  RDS extended support: priced per vCPU (2026)

  RDS extended support scales with instance size, unlike EKS, and runs three years. Disabling it on a lapsed database upgrades the engine immediately.

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