Optimizing Amazon RDS and Aurora Database Costs and Performance with AWS Compute Optimizer

AWS Compute Optimizer provides recommendations to optimize Amazon RDS and Amazon Aurora database costs and performance. The service analyzes CloudWatch metrics to identify the optimal DB instance configuration for MySQL and PostgreSQL databases, helping to maximize performance and cost-efficiency. Compute Optimizer takes a performance-first approach, focusing on optimizing instances without reducing memory capacity. The service also evaluates historical usage patterns to identify trends and cyclical workload patterns, providing recommendations for right sizing database instances and upgrading to the latest generation hardware.