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**To scale the capacity of an Aurora Serverless DB cluster**
The following ``modify-current-db-cluster-capacity`` example scales the capacity of an Aurora Serverless DB cluster to 8. ::
aws rds modify-current-db-cluster-capacity \
--db-cluster-identifier mydbcluster \
--capacity 8
Output::
{
"DBClusterIdentifier": "mydbcluster",
"PendingCapacity": 8,
"CurrentCapacity": 1,
"SecondsBeforeTimeout": 300,
"TimeoutAction": "ForceApplyCapacityChange"
}
For more information, see `Scaling Aurora Serverless v1 DB cluster capacity manually <https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/AuroraUserGuide/aurora-serverless.setting-capacity.html>`__ in the *Amazon Aurora User Guide*.