[joshstrange]

I mean I'm using PlanetScale with Prisma ORM on AWS Lambda right now without issue. Unlike many DB providers, PlanetScale supports nearly unlimited connections. I think I saw in their docs they have a soft-limit of something like 250K connections.

I used Aurora Data API before moving off Aurora Serverless (insane pricing) to Prisma and PlanetScale, I don't think I'd go back to the HTTP API as Prisma works very well and I enjoy using it. One downside to Prisma is the DB "engine" is a arch-specific (obviously) binary that is pretty hefty. I want to say ~50MB. That can be a killer in serverless but I was able to work around it without much issue. If I ever wanted to dive into the world of Lambda layers I could probably move it into it's own later (however that still counts towards your max lambda size).

[gsanderson]

I agree about Aurora Serverless pricing!

Yeah, I think this new thing would be less useful for Lambda as that does support TCP connections. However a HTTP API is required for e.g Cloudflare Workers where you can't create a normal MySQL client. I think that's where this could shine.

[tbarn]

We are hearing from some users that the performance with Lambda is really good with the new driver. We are going to do some comparisons soon to see if there is more worth sharing on it too. We are going to do a Twitch stream adding it to a Lambda on Tuesday at 11am CT if you are interested. https://www.twitch.tv/planetscale