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by nh_99 2540 days ago
A company that I work for was in the beta of serverless for MySQL, and we currently use it for both dev and production workloads. We're a startup, so it definitely simplifies devops for us, but personally I think you're better off just running a large RDS instance.

The main problem with it that we have run into is that if there are active transactions in the database, it can't find a "scale point". So when our application gets hit with thousands of users at a time and they are all generating database transactions, it can't scale up.

It's definitely been good for us in development though, and I would highly recommend it for that.

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They do allow you to drop connections with forced scale points if that's a tradeoff your application can make https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/04/amazon_au...