# What is a Serverless Database?

DevFeed: [What is a Serverless Database?](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/what-is-a-serverless-database-5851.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://neon.com/blog/what-is-a-serverless-database>)

Author: Joe Drumgoole

Published: 2023-11-22T13:25:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Blog -- Neon Docs](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/blog-neon-docs.md>)

Topics: [Database](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/database.md>), [Amazon EC2](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/amazon-ec2.md>)

Tags: [architecture](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/architecture.md>), [aws](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/aws.md>), [aws-lambda](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/aws-lambda.md>), [cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud.md>), [cloud-computing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud-computing.md>), [community](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/community.md>), [database](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/database.md>), [performance](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/performance.md>), [postgres](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/postgres.md>), [scale](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/scale.md>), [serverless](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/serverless.md>)

## AI overview

The article introduces serverless databases by contrasting them with serverfull cloud services, where users specify capacity such as CPU, memory, IOPs, and network bandwidth. It describes over-provisioning in cloud deployments and uses AWS EC2 and Postgres experience to illustrate the cost of excess capacity.

## Source excerpt

We recently sponsored All Things Open 2023, and a consistent question that people asked at the stand was, "What is Serverless?". Proof that knowledge distributes unevenly across the Internet. Given that AWS Lambda launched in 2014, some might be surprised that this question is st...