We had an AWS MySQL RDS t3.xlarge instance with 2000 IOPS. Also, I have a cron job written in java which inserts data in a table: it can insert up to 12M rows daily. Since AWS RDS cost is quite high we decided to migrate to AWS Aurora Serverless v1.

But what was surprising for us: the job executed on AWS RDS in ~3 hours but on Aurora Serverless it took ~16 hours.

According to my searches, it is suggested to change parameter values: innodb_flush_log_at_trx_commit (1 -> 0) and sync_binlog (1 -> 0). For Aurora Serverless you can modify innodb_flush_log_at_trx_commit but sync_binlog - no. Probably that's why changing innodb_flush_log_at_trx_commit didn't give any results.

My questions are:

• Why on Aurora Serverless the same job executes almost 3x times slower than on AWS RDS (Although, I understand that t3.xlarge instance with 2000 IOPS is quite powerful)?
• Is there a solution to accelerate Aurora Serverless inserts?