Aurora Serverless Scales to 12 ACUs Instantly for Agentic AI Workloads

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Amazon Aurora Serverless — AWS's auto-scaling managed database — now reaches up to 12 ACUs (Aurora Capacity Units, the measure of compute and memory) within one second at the start of a scale-up event, then continues scaling to 256 ACUs as demand grows, before automatically returning to zero when idle. AWS explicitly positions this improvement for agentic AI workloads, which generate unpredictable, bursty database traffic as AI agents execute tasks in parallel and then sit idle between runs. The enhancement is on by default for clusters running platform version 3 or 4, with no configuration changes needed; clusters on older versions can upgrade directly to version 4.