[BenoitP]

What kind of time are we talking about, 10 seconds or 3-4 minutes?

Or very short, but everything will be painfully slow?

[sudhirj]

On the order of tens of seconds, for a cold start from zero. Enough time to load your RAM cache from hibernation and boot up OS and Postgres.

[boarnoah]

Is it really? Been trying out Aurora MySQL for our staging db, and its closer to 1 min+ for a cold start.

[sudhirj]

But isn’t the variance on this completely useless? It’ll depend entirely on the size of your cache, the region you’re in, the traffic at that time and rack you’re lucky enough to be on. Will also depend on AWS configs, which can change daily.

[jjeaff]

But what does it mean to be warm in this case? Last called less than a minute ago? 10 minutes?