Aurora PostgreSQL: Now Free Enough to Be Dangerous

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