Did you know Amazon Aurora Serverless V2 can now scale down to 0 ACUs? To be clear, this helps with compute costs, but you will still incur storage costs for data at rest, currently priced at $0.10 per GB per month. Of course, there are also costs for throughput, but if no traffic is passing through for extended periods, there will be no charges for that either.

This feature is ideal for small projects or microservices that aren’t used constantly. I often see people complaining about AWS’s prices, and this is one way to combat the “high prices” of AWS.