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Check out PlanetScale [0] (MySQL). It's free for hobby projects and then a flat $30/mo (+usage if you go over their very high limits). You can run your dev/qa/prod environment all on one "database" using their branches and you also get zero-downtime schema changes which is pretty sweet. I've been very happy with them so far.

I migrated from RDS Aurora Serverless V1 after being frustrated with the high prices (V2 is even worse) and the annoyance of sleeping DBs (for my dev/qa environments, I couldn't afford $45x3/mo). Now I get all 3 for only $30/mo and safe/easy schema migrations. It's been a joy to work with and their support has been very responsive. This week is a "launch week" for them so you'll probably see a few posts about it this week and I encourage you check them out if you are looking for scalable managed MySQL DBs.

[0] https://planetscale.com/



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