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Neo4j

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Velocity6.3

Neo4j Aura pushes on billing transparency, scale ceilings, and graph analytics.

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◆Current state
Neo4j's Aura cloud is shipping across three fronts: a new self-service billing experience and Billing API, higher scale ceilings (5TB storage on AWS, 2TB high-memory on GCP), and graph-analytics depth (Native Projections, ML model persistence). The monthly Aura release rolls these up with Cypher 25 GQL compliance work.
◆Where it's heading
Aura is maturing as an enterprise managed service — financial controls, larger instances, and operational hygiene (user pruning) — while continuing to invest in the graph-data-science layer that differentiates it.
◆Prediction
Expect continued enterprise-readiness work (billing, scale, governance) alongside GDS and GQL-compliance progress; a unified neo4j-cli also suggests more developer-CLI investment ahead.

◆Recent moves

  1. 18d ago

    Native Projections now in Aura Graph Analytics

    Native Projections in Aura Graph Analytics let users project graphs directly from database storage into a GDS session — a meaningful efficiency gain for the analytics layer.

  2. 26d ago

    New Billing API available

    New /usage and /ledger Aura API endpoints reach GA, giving programmatic access to billed usage and history — part of the broader billing-transparency push.

  3. 26d ago

    New Billing API in Aura API v2beta1

    A duplicate announcement of the new Billing API endpoints under the Aura API v2beta1 feed. Same release, second listing.

  4. 1mo ago

    Larger 5TB Adjustable storage now available on AWS

    AuraDB Business Critical and VDC customers on AWS can now configure up to 5TB of storage — raising the scale ceiling for large deployments.

  5. 1mo ago

    Neo4j Aura May Database Release

    The May Aura release bundles Fleet Manager discovery, expanded Cypher 25 GQL compliance, new string functions, and runtime fixes — steady platform maturation.

  6. 1mo ago

    New Aura billing experience now available for all customers

    A new self-service Aura billing experience adds a financial dashboard for org admins, complementing the Billing API in the transparency arc.