In this tutorial, you will learn how to configure and connect to Amazon Aurora Serverless.

Amazon Aurora is a relational database service with MySQL and PostgreSQL-compatible editions, which offers the performance and availability of enterprise databases at a fraction of the cost. Aurora Serverless is a new on-demand auto-scaling configuration for Aurora which is now generally available for the Aurora MySQL-compatible edition. With Aurora Serverless, your database will automatically start up, shut down , and scale up or down capacity based on your application’s needs – so you’re never paying for what you don’t use, while still benefiting from Aurora’s high availability, scale, and speed.

Traditionally, database administration requires a fair amount of guesswork: keeping ahead of unknowable and sometimes volatile compute and storage growth for new applications, managing variable workloads like development and test databases, and keeping lots of database capacity online - only for it to be used infrequently. With Aurora Serverless, you can eliminate the guesswork. Aurora Serverless grows your database storage and compute capacity when your application needs it, and shrinks capacity when your app needs less. You pay on a per-second basis for the database capacity you use when the database is active, and migrate between standard and serverless configurations with a few clicks in the AWS Management Console.

In the next few minutes, you will create and configure a new Aurora Serverless DB cluster. To access your new Aurora Serverless cluster, you will create a Cloud9 environment and then enable network traffic to the cluster from your Cloud9 environment. Using the MySQL command line tool installed on your Cloud9 environment, you will login to your cluster. Finally, you will clean up and terminate your Cloud9 environment and Aurora Serverless DB cluster.

This tutorial is not within the free tier and will cost you less than $1 provided you follow the steps in the tutorial and terminate your resources at the close of the tutorial.