Aurora PostgreSQL: Now Free Enough to Be Dangerous

Aurora PostgreSQL: Now Free Enough to Be Dangerous

March 30, 2026 · 4 min · Episode 713

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Corey Quinn discusses the latest AWS updates including Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL's new features and AWS service enhancements.

AWS Morning Brief for the week of March 30th, with Corey Quinn. Links : Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL now available with the AWS Free Tier Amazon EKS announces 99.99% Service Level Agreement and new 8XL scaling tier for Provisioned Control Plane clusters AWS Lambda increases the file descriptor limit to 4,096 for functions running on Lambda Managed Instances The AWS Advanced JDBC Wrapper now supports automatic query caching with Valkey Announcing Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL serverless database creation in seconds Enhancing auto scaling resilience by tracking worker utilization metrics Amazon CloudFront flat-rate pricing plans: new features and expanded capabilities IAM policy types: How and when to use them Preparing for agentic AI: A financial services approach

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