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Kate Gawron
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Kate Gawron is a full-time senior database consultant and part-time future racing driver. She was a competitor in Formula Woman, and she aspires to become a professional Gran Turismo (GT) racing driver. Away from the racetrack, Kate has worked with Oracle databases for 18 years and AWS for five years. She holds four AWS certifications, including the AWS Certified Database – Specialty certification as well as two professional Oracle qualifications. Kate currently works as a senior database architect, where she works with customers to migrate and refactor their databases to work optimally within the AWS cloud.
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Understanding Aurora pricing

Aurora pricing is different between provisioned mode and Serverless. In provisioned mode, Aurora is priced in a similar way to RDS, where you decide how much resources (CPU and memory) you need, as well as how much storage. In Serverless, you are billed based on the Aurora Capacity Units (ACUs), which are priced as a combination of CPU and memory. In addition, you pay for any specific features you use such as global tables and Backtrack. In addition, you pay for read/write I/O usage in Aurora, which is included as standard in RDS.

To calculate your total Aurora costs, you will need to choose an instance size, database engine (MySQL or PostgreSQL), storage size, and I/O requirements. You can use the AWS Calculator to help you build your estimate. The following screenshot shows the figures you need to add to the Calculator for storage and I/O rates:

Figure 5.3 – AWS Calculator

The Calculator URL is https://calculator.aws...

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Kate Gawron

Kate Gawron is a full-time senior database consultant and part-time future racing driver. She was a competitor in Formula Woman, and she aspires to become a professional Gran Turismo (GT) racing driver. Away from the racetrack, Kate has worked with Oracle databases for 18 years and AWS for five years. She holds four AWS certifications, including the AWS Certified Database – Specialty certification as well as two professional Oracle qualifications. Kate currently works as a senior database architect, where she works with customers to migrate and refactor their databases to work optimally within the AWS cloud.
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