Amazon Aurora Serverless is an on-demand, auto-scaling configuration for Amazon Aurora. It automatically starts up, shuts down, and scales capacity up or down based on your application's needs. It enables you to run your database in the cloud without managing any database capacity.

With Aurora Serverless, you simply create a database endpoint, optionally specify the desired database capacity range, and connect your applications. You pay on a per-second basis for the database capacity you use when the database is active, and migrate between standard and serverless configurations with a few clicks in the Amazon RDS Management Console.

Amazon DynamoDB is a key-value and document database that delivers single-digit millisecond performance at any scale. It's a fully managed, multi-region, multi-active, durable database with built-in security, backup and restore, and in-memory caching for internet-scale applications.

DynamoDB differs from other Amazon services by allowing developers to purchase a service based on throughput, rather than storage. If Auto Scaling is enabled, then the database will scale automatically. Additionally, administrators can request throughput changes and DynamoDB will spread the data and traffic over a number of servers using solid-state drives, allowing predictable performance.

A wide variety of payment methods exist, with the smallest database starting at an upfront $243, or $24.82 monthly for a year.

Dynamo DB's prices vary according to region, the provided example utilizes the US East (N. Virginia) prices.

Free Tier

• 25 GB of data storage
  
• 2.5 million stream read requests from DynamoDB Streams
• 1 GB of data transfer out, aggregated across AWS services  
  
  

Example Pricing

Applications with 10M reads ($2,5), 1M writes ($1,25), 1 GB ($0,25) and continuous backup ($0,20) $4,20 USD

Onboarding
Good documentation that includes tutorials.

Scalability
On-demand auto scaling configuration, sharding.

Regions
US, Africa, Asia Pacific, China, South America, Middle East and Europe. The support varies across specific versions of each database engine, and across AWS Regions.

 
Backups 
Aurora backs up your cluster volume automatically and retains restore data for the length of the backup retention period. You can specify a backup retention period, from 1 to 35 days, when you create or modify a DB cluster.  Aurora backups are stored in Amazon S3.

Security
By default, Aurora Serverless v1 uses the Transport Layer Security/Secure Sockets Layer (TLS/SSL) protocol to encrypt communications between clients and your Aurora Serverless v1 DB cluster. It supports TLS/SSL versions 1.0, 1.1, and 1.2.

Onboarding
Rich in documentation, with a great tutorial to start things off.

Scalability
Has automatic scaling as an option.

Regions
United States, Africa, Asia Pacific, Europe, Middle East.

To connect programmatically to an AWS service, you use an endpoint. In addition to the standard AWS endpoints, some AWS services offer FIPS endpoints in selected Regions.

Backups 
Charged separatedly from the project. Has three different options: Continuous backups, on-demand, or restoring a table.

Security
AWS is responsible for protecting the infrastructure that runs AWS services in the AWS Cloud. Includes data protection, identity and access management, infrastructure security, and more.

• Compatible with MySQL and PostgreSQL
  
• High-performance storage subsystem
  
• Automates and standardizes database clustering and replication
• Supports the full breadth of Aurora features, including Global Database, Multi-AZ deployments, and read replicas.
  
• Takes advantage of the familiar Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) features for management and administration.
  

Amazon DynamoDB is a NoSQL database that supports key-value and document data models. Developers can use DynamoDB to build modern, serverless applications that can start small and scale globally to support petabytes of data and tens of millions of read and write requests per second.

• Microsecond latency with DynamoDB Accelerator
  
• Automated global replication with global tables
  
• Read/write capacity modes
  
• On-demand mode
  
• ACID transactions
• Encryption at rest
  
• Point-in-time recovery
  
• On-demand backup and restore
  

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