An Amazon Aurora Serverless cluster can be configured to pause after a certain duration of inactivity: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/AuroraUserGuide/aurora-serverless.how-it-works.html#aurora-serverless.how-it-works.pause-resume

However, the shortest amount of time for which it can be configured to do so is 5 minutes.

This might not be sufficient for a frequent but predictable workload. Consider a case where the database is accessed for a few seconds every 10 minutes. With the database pausing 5 minutes after the last connection closes, that would result in a 50% cost saving over leaving the database constantly active.

In this sort of scenario, it would be nice if there were some way to prompt the database cluster into pausing - some way to say "okay, I'm done, you can pause now, no need to wait".

Either an API call that pauses the cluster or a way to reduce the timeout to less than 5 minutes would be perfect.

Is this possible?