Look at switching to Aurora Serverless v2; it now supports scaling to zero, which is great for side
Look at switching to Aurora Serverless v2; it now supports scaling to zero, which is great for side projects that don't need to be on all the time. (Takes <30 seconds to turn back on.)
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/introducing-scaling-to-0-capacity-with-amazon-aurora-serverless-v2/
And it also has zero-downtime patching (ZDP)!
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/AuroraUserGuide/USER_UpgradeDBInstance.PostgreSQL.MinorUpgrade.html#USER_UpgradeDBInstance.PostgreSQL.Minor.zdp
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/introducing-scaling-to-0-capacity-with-amazon-aurora-serverless-v2/
And it also has zero-downtime patching (ZDP)!
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/AuroraUserGuide/USER_UpgradeDBInstance.PostgreSQL.MinorUpgrade.html#USER_UpgradeDBInstance.PostgreSQL.Minor.zdp