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RDS Postgres v14.4 CPU utilization not going below 5% when idle

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I have an RDS Postgres instance on a t3.small and am trying to drive down the CPU usage of my clients connecting to it (I have a few API services connected). I've stopped all my services connecting to my DB to see how low the CPU usage will go and it does not go below 5% CPU Utilization, even after a reboot (see attached image, right at the end is where I stopped my services and rebooted the DB server). I have ran SELECT * FROM pg_stat_activity and can confirm that there are no clients connected, but there are the usual AWS monitors and other wait_event_type=Activity rows. Does RDS have a number of background services that will keep the CPU Utilization hovering around 5%? enter image description here
Asked by PGT (101 rep)
Feb 14, 2023, 07:00 AM
Last activity: Jun 26, 2025, 07:06 PM