Moving scale-to-zero workloads from Aurora Serverless V1 to Neon

Amazon Aurora Serverless V1 is being phased out by the end of this year, forcing users to migrate to V2 which lacks scale-to-zero capabilities. Neon, a serverless Postgres with performant scale-to-zero, offers an alternative solution. Migrating from V1 to V2 can lead to significant cost increases due to idle instances no longer being free. In contrast, moving from V1 to Neon results in comparable costs and faster cold starts. The migration process involves using AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) to copy data from Aurora source database to the target Neon PostgreSQL database while maintaining integrity of the database structure.