--- title: "Aurora PostgreSQL: Now Free Enough to Be Dangerous" id: "15290" type: "podcast" slug: "aurora-postgresql-now-free-enough-to-be-dangerous" published_at: "2026-03-30T10:30:00+00:00" modified_at: "2026-05-01T18:43:56+00:00" url: "https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/last-week-in-aws-podcast/aurora-postgresql-now-free-enough-to-be-dangerous/" markdown_url: "https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/last-week-in-aws-podcast/aurora-postgresql-now-free-enough-to-be-dangerous.md" taxonomy_shows: - "Last Week In AWS Podcast" --- About the Author Corey is the Chief Cloud Economist at Duckbill, where he specializes in helping companies improve their AWS bills by making them smaller and less horrifying. He also hosts the "Screaming in the Cloud" and "AWS Morning Brief" podcasts; and curates "Last Week in AWS," a weekly newsletter summarizing the latest in AWS news, blogs, and tools, sprinkled with snark and thoughtful analysis in roughly equal measure. [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/aws-morning-brief/id1466344305](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/aws-morning-brief/id1466344305) [https://overcast.fm/itunes1466344305/aws-morning-brief](https://overcast.fm/itunes1466344305/aws-morning-brief) [https://pca.st/AKs0](https://pca.st/AKs0) [https://podcastaddict.com/podcast/2382583](https://podcastaddict.com/podcast/2382583) [https://open.spotify.com/show/3A04JNrNAcZMvn8cvDWpWU](https://open.spotify.com/show/3A04JNrNAcZMvn8cvDWpWU) [https://feeds.transistor.fm/aws-morning-brief](https://feeds.transistor.fm/aws-morning-brief) ## Episode Summary AWS Morning Brief for the week of March 30th, with Corey Quinn. ## Episode Show Notes & Transcript **Links**: - [Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL now available with the AWS Free Tier](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/03/amazon-aurora-postgresql-aws-free-tier/) - [Amazon EKS announces 99.99% Service Level Agreement and new 8XL scaling tier for Provisioned Control Plane clusters](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/03/amazon-eks-announces-sla-8xl-scaling-tier/) - [AWS Lambda increases the file descriptor limit to 4,096 for functions running on Lambda Managed Instances](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/03/aws-Lambda-file-descriptors-increase-4096/) - [The AWS Advanced JDBC Wrapper now supports automatic query caching with Valkey](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/03/aws-jdbc-caching-with-valkey/) - [Announcing Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL serverless database creation in seconds](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/announcing-amazon-aurora-postgresql-serverless-database-creation-in-seconds/) - [Enhancing auto scaling resilience by tracking worker utilization metrics](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/enhancing-auto-scaling-resilience-by-tracking-worker-utilization-metrics/) - [Amazon CloudFront flat-rate pricing plans: new features and expanded capabilities](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/networking-and-content-delivery/amazon-cloudfront-flat-rate-pricing-plans-new-features-and-expanded-capabilities/) - [IAM policy types: How and when to use them](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/iam-policy-types-how-and-when-to-use-them/) - [Preparing for agentic AI: A financial services approach](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/preparing-for-agentic-ai-a-financial-services-approach/) View Full Transcript Hide Full Transcript ## You might also like [More Podcast Episodes](https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/last-week-in-aws-podcast/) ### [The Week AWS Discovered JOIN Statements](https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/last-week-in-aws-podcast/the-week-aws-discovered-join-statements/) Last Week In AWS Podcast 04.27.2026 10 Minutes [Listen Now](https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/last-week-in-aws-podcast/the-week-aws-discovered-join-statements/) ### [Multicloud Interconnect and the Great CVE Hunt](https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/last-week-in-aws-podcast/multicloud-interconnect-and-the-great-cve-hunt/) Last Week In AWS Podcast 04.20.2026 6 Minutes [Listen Now](https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/last-week-in-aws-podcast/multicloud-interconnect-and-the-great-cve-hunt/) ### [S3 Files and an AI-Powered Singing Rat Trap](https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/last-week-in-aws-podcast/s3-files-and-an-ai-powered-singing-rat-trap/) Last Week In AWS Podcast 04.13.2026 6 Minutes [Listen Now](https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/last-week-in-aws-podcast/s3-files-and-an-ai-powered-singing-rat-trap/)