Amazon Aurora DB engine, Region, and instance class support for Performance Insights

Important

AWS has announced the end-of-life date for Performance Insights: July 31, 2026. After this date, Amazon RDS will no longer support the Performance Insights console experience. The Performance Insights console will redirect to CloudWatch Database Insights. Flexible retention periods (1–24 months) and their associated pricing are preserved in Standard mode of Database Insights at the same cost as Performance Insights today. The Performance Insights API will continue to exist with no changes. Costs for the Performance Insights API will appear in your AWS bill with the cost of CloudWatch Database Insights.

We recommend that you review your DB clusters using Performance Insights and choose the Database Insights mode that best fits your needs before July 31, 2026. For core monitoring with flexible retention, Standard mode of Database Insights preserves your existing experience and pricing. For advanced capabilities including fleet-level monitoring, lock diagnostics, and execution plan capture, see Turning on the Advanced mode of Database Insights for Amazon Aurora.

If you take no action, DB clusters using Performance Insights will default to using the Standard mode of Database Insights with your existing retention period configured. Your CloudFormation templates, Terraform configurations, and deployment scripts will continue to work exactly as they do today – all Performance Insights API parameters, including retention period settings, are fully preserved. After July 31, 2026, only the Advanced mode of Database Insights will support execution plans and on-demand analysis.

With CloudWatch Database Insights, you can monitor database load for your fleet of databases and analyze and troubleshoot performance at scale. For more information about Database Insights, see Monitoring Amazon Aurora databases with CloudWatch Database Insights or Register for upcoming workshops to learn more. For current pricing information, see Amazon CloudWatch Pricing.

The following table provides Amazon Aurora DB engines that support Performance Insights.

Amazon Aurora DB engine	Supported engine versions and Regions	Instance class restrictions
Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition	For more information on version and Region availability of Performance Insights with Aurora MySQL, see Performance Insights with Aurora MySQL.	Performance Insights has the following engine class restrictions: db.t2 – Not supported db.t3 – Not supported db.t4g.micro and db.t4g.small – Not supported
Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition	For more information on version and Region availability of Performance Insights with Aurora PostgreSQL, see Performance Insights with Aurora PostgreSQL.	N/A

Amazon Aurora DB engine, Region, and instance class support for Performance Insights features

The following table provides Amazon Aurora DB engines that support Performance Insights features.

Feature	Pricing tier	Supported regions	Supported DB engines	Supported instance classes
SQL statistics for Performance Insights	All	All	All	All
Analyzing database performance for a period of time	Paid tier only	All	All	All except db.serverless (Aurora serverless)
Viewing Performance Insights proactive recommendations	Paid tier only	US East (Ohio) US East (N. Virginia) US West (N. California) US West (Oregon) Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Asia Pacific (Seoul) Asia Pacific (Singapore) Asia Pacific (Sydney) Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Canada (Central) Europe (Frankfurt) Europe (Ireland) Europe (London) Europe (Paris) Europe (Stockholm) South America (São Paulo)	All	All except db.serverless (Aurora serverless)