Public IP for AWS Aurora possible or not?

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AWS documentation states that Aurora Serverless DB cannot have a public IP Address:

You can't give an Aurora Serverless DB cluster a public IP address. You can access an Aurora Serverless DB cluster only from within a virtual private cloud (VPC) based on the Amazon VPC service.

However, this confuses me as I was just able to set "Public accessibility" to "Yes". I was also able to connect to the database outside the VPC using the endpoint specified.

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Am I misunderstanding the limitations (Public IP)? Or is this something that was made possible just recently?

Thank you!

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It looks like public availability is a recent addition. It wasn't possible a few months ago when I looked at it, but it was a stated goal. Based on the screenshot it doesn't look like there's an IP assigned to you but rather a host name. You likely need to use the host name in your request, not the IP it resolves to (guessing, but fairly sure). – Eric J.
Yes! I used the hostname and it worked perfectly. Quite weird that there's no official announcement on this. – naribo

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The part you quoted mentions Aurora Serverless - this is different to the Aurora you are using in your picture.

Serverless is only available inside VPC as your quote states - Standard Aurora can be made publicly accessible, although generally it's better practice to restrict access to inside VPC only.