- Aurora Serverless now scales to 12 ACUs within a second and up to 256 ACUs, auto‑scaling down to zero when idle.
- The enhancement is enabled by default on platform versions 3 and 4; clusters on v1/v2 can upgrade directly to v4 to gain the improvements.
- Optimized for bursty, agentic AI workloads, providing rapid scaling and pay‑as‑you‑go pricing.