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đ Aura Now Available in Montreal (GCP)
Weâre pleased to announce that AuraDB Professional and Business Critical and AuraDS are now live in Google Cloudâs
northamerica-northeast1
(Montreal) region.Many of you have asked for a Canadian region, and this addition gives you the ability to keep your data closer to home while benefiting from Neo4jâs fully managed experience on GCP.
Your feedback continues to guide our regional expansion, so please keep sharing your prioritiesâweâre building this roadmap with you.
Start running AuraDB in Montreal today.
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đ Aura Now Available in Frankfurt (AWS)
Weâre excited to share that AuraDB Professional and Business Critical and AuraDS are now supported in AWSâs
eu-central-1
(Frankfurt) region.Frankfurt has been one of our most requested AWS regions, and this launch provides even more choice for European customers who need local data residency and low-latency access.
Weâd love to hear where youâd like Aura to go nextâyour requests help us decide which regions to bring online.
Deploy your AuraDB cluster in Frankfurt today.
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AuraDB Virtual Dedicated Cloud
AuraDB Professional
AuraDB Free
AuraDS Professional
AuraDS Enterprise
AuraDB Business Critical
Neo4j Aura Database August Release Update
The Neo4j Aura August release is now rolling outâstarting with AuraDB Free and gradually extending to higher-tier instances.
This month brings new Cypher and Cypher Shell functionalities, and improved query performance!
Key Updates
- Introduced a new Cypher function allReduce()to optimize variable path expansion in your queries, allowing for earlier filtering of irrelevant paths.
- ALTER DATABASE privileges (including sub-privileges) can now be specified per database, and not just at DBMS.
- Some queries previously unsupported by the NEXTstatement are now supported.
- Improved the performance of dynamic label queries, bringing them closer to the speed of static label lookups.
- Added an option in Cypher Shell CLI to disable the command and query history.
Fixes
Server
- Range index is now consistent with no index for equality comparisons over points and durations.
Cypher
- Resolved a bug causing large number overflows in arithmetic operations
- Fixed an issue with spatial queries (point.distance()andpoint.withinBBox()) that could fail to find points just outside a restricted index region.Note: You may need to rebuild your point index for this fix to take full effect.
- Corrected an error that occurred when creating multiple linked users with a parameterized username.
For full details of all updates and fixes in this release, please visit: Release Notes: Neo4j Aura Database â August 2025
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AuraDB Virtual Dedicated Cloud
AuraDB Professional
AuraDB Business Critical
Adjustable Storage now available for AuraDB on AWS!
Weâre excited to announce that
Adjustable Storage
is now available for AuraDB Professional
, Business Critical
and Virtual Dedicated Cloud
tier customers deploying on AWS
cloud. This feature, previously released for GCP, allows customers on AWS to independently scale storage and RAM for their AuraDB instances. You can now adjust your storage capacity without the need to increase your instance size - helping you avoid unnecessary costs.
This capability is available for
new deployments
and resizes
running the latest Neo4j version
and can be configured via both the API
and Console
.Whatâs New
With Adjustable Storage, you can now scale storage and RAM independentlyâgiving you greater flexibility to increase storage capacity without upgrading instance size, while also reducing compute costs.

Benefits of Adjustable Storage:
- Greater Flexibility: Scale resources to suit your needs
- Cost Efficiency: Avoid additional compute expense when only extra storage is required
- Improved Experience: Eliminate manual processes and custom workaround support requests
For more informations, please visit our documentation page.
We are excited to announce that Secondaries are now available for Neo4j AuraDB Business Critical instances!
This feature, previously exclusive to our Virtual Dedicated Cloud tier, brings a new level of read scalability and high availability to our enterprise-grade, multi-tenant AuraDB offering.
Now, you can enhance your Business Critical applications by:
- Boosting Read Performance: Offload read-intensive workloadsâsuch as complex analytical queries and reporting dashboardsâto a Secondary. This frees up your primary database to focus on transactional operations, improving overall application speed and responsiveness.
- Higher availability: Distributing multiple Secondaries across availability zones ensures fault tolerance and high availabilityâan outage in one zone doesnât impact Secondaries in other zones.
Adding a Secondary to your Business Critical instance is simple and can be done directly from the Aura Console. Please see the Docs page for further information.
For a deeper dive into the benefits of using Secondaries, check out our detailed blog post: Boosting AuraDB Read Performance With Secondaries.
We are thrilled to bring this much-requested feature for read scaling to our Business Critical customers.
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Data Importer
AuraDB Business Critical
đ New: Import from Cloud Object Storage
Weâre excited to announce that Neo4j Aura now supports importing data directly from
AWS S3
, Google Cloud Storage
, and Azure Blob & Data Lake Storage
!
With this release, you can ingest data stored in object storage into your graph, using CSV or Parquet files as input. You can map one or more filesâusing glob patterns if neededâinto temporary tables, enabling flexible transformations and modeling. These tables support the same intuitive mapping experience available for RDBMS and Cloud Data Warehouse sources, so you can stay productive no matter where your data lives.

Whether you're loading product catalogs, user activity logs, or complex relationship data, itâs now easier than ever to bring that data into Neo4j using our visual import tools.
- đ Supported file types: .csv,.parquet
- đ§© Supports multiple files with matching schema
- đ ïž Familiar modeling and mapping workflow
- đ Works across AWS, GCP, and Azure
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Have feedback or ideas?
Weâd love to hear from you! Visit feedback.neo4j.com to share your thoughts and help shape future improvements.new
AuraDB Virtual Dedicated Cloud
AuraDB Business Critical
IP Filtering Now Available for Neo4j AuraDB
Neo4j AuraDB now supports IP Filtering, enabling you to define which IP address ranges can access your graph databases. This feature provides strong, lightweight network access control without requiring private endpoint setup.
Users with Organization Admin privileges can manage filters via the Aura Console UI or Admin API, with support for up to 100 IP ranges for Virtual Dedicated Cloud (VDC) instances and 20 for Business Critical (BC). Filters can be applied across a project or individual to each database instance for consistent access policies.
IP Filtering is ideal for securing public or hybrid deployments, limiting access to trusted networks, enforcing compliance boundaries, and streamlining development environments.
Available now for AuraDB Business Critical & Virtual Dedicated Cloud tiers, with broader tier support coming in the future, see our documentation for more details.
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AuraDB Professional
AuraDB Free
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AuraDS Enterprise
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Neo4j Aura Database July Release Update
The Neo4j Aura July release is now rolling outâstarting with AuraDB Free and gradually extending to higher-tier instances.
This month brings exciting updates to our Generative AI integration and new dynamic capabilities in Cypher!
Key Updates
- Expanded Generative AI Support: We have removed model restrictions for VertexAI and Google Bedrock when using the GenAI plugin. This allows you to use the latest available models. Important: The previous default model for VertexAI has been retired. Users must now explicitly specify a model in the configuration map when using VertexAI.
- Dynamic Labels and Types in Cypher: You can now use parameters to dynamically specify node labels and relationship types in your queries. This allows for more flexible query construction, for example: WHERE n:$($label).
- Improved Backup Inspection: For easier management and verification, backup metadata is now always included in the backup inspection output.
Important Fixes
This release fixes a critical bug that could cause the parallel runtime to return incorrect results for queries containing map projections (e.g.,
MATCH (n) RETURN n {.*} AS map
).For full details of all updates and fixes in this release, please visit: Release Notes: Neo4j Aura Database â July 2025.
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Aura Graph Analytics
Aura Graph Analytics now available on AuraDB Professional

Weâre excited to announce that
Aura Graph Analytics Serverless
is now available on AuraDB Professional in addition to Business Critical and Virtual Dedicated Cloud. Previously, Graph Analytics
Plugin
was the only feature available on Professional instances. While the plugin is suitable for lightweight analytical queries, our serverless functionality allows the instance to run graph algorithms in an on-demand ephemeral compute environment. Only a single option (Plugin or Serverless) is permitted on a single AuraDB Professional instance at one time. Aura Graph Analytics does not require any installation to a Neo4j DBMS. Instead, a GDS Session is started on-demand to perform computations. There are two primary APIs for working with GDS Sessions: the GDS Python Client and the GDS Session Cypher API.
Graph Analytics Serverless is enabled by default on new instances. Edit an existing instance which is using the plugin with the â
Configure
â button and select serverless within the configuration options.See our examples page to test out graph projection into a GDS Session, run algorithms and then write them back to the AuraDB instance. You only need an Aura API key to get started!

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AuraDB Professional
New database roles and seamless access to Aura instances
Weâre excited to announce the release of two new features:
predefined roles
and tool authentication with Aura users
for AuraDB Professional. These changes will enhance collaboration, querying and exploring data with graph tools by enabling one-click access to Aura instances using console roles.Predefined roles
What are they?
Predefined roles are database roles which permit varying levels of access to your Aura instance. The roles are immutable (cannot be changed) and apply to all AuraDB instances automatically.
Previously, there was only one database role (
public
) for AuraDB Free and Professional users. With this change, Administrator, Member, and Viewer predefined roles are available. You can create a new database user and grant a predefined role, which now allows for the possibility of read-only database users on AuraDB Professional. RBAC and built-in roles are also available for Business Critical and VDC users.
Who does this impact?
- AuraDB Free and Professional users (Business Critical and AuraDS to follow in the next few weeks)
- Version 5 instances only
How do they work?
All users (whether via the console or directly accessing via a DB username and password) use
roles
which contain privileges
to allow the users to perform actions on the instance. See details on roles and their privileges here.What are the changes that I will see?
For all Version 5 Aura instances on Free or Professional tiers, the following changes will apply:
All applicable tiers:
- New roles will be added to all instances
- The public role which is granted to all users has been limited to include only baseline permissions
AuraDB Free
- CREATE user is no longer available in Cypher. This feature did not have any practical benefit to Aura usage, as all users previously had the same (public) role. Aura users will be able to access the Free instance with predefined roles, based on their console role using Tool authentication.
AuraDB Professional
- From 4th August each new native (username/password) database user will need to be assigned a role before being able to use the instance. Until then, all new native database users will be assigned the console_admin role
AuraDS Professional / AuraDB Business Critical
- Predefined roles will be added in the next few weeks
Tool authentication with Aura users
This new setting provides a simple and secure method to allow Console users in your project with access to instances within the project. Your user role in the Aura Console links to a predefined role within the database.
How can I use it?
Tool authentication is OFF by default on all existing instances, with the exception of AuraDB Free.
Organization owners and admins
can switch on the tool authentication with these steps:- Navigate to the Organization settings menu (click on the org icon)
- Click the security item in the left navigation
- Select âTool authentication with Aura usersâ
Once the setting is enabled on an instance, all users will be able to access your instances either by using the left navigation to explore or query, or from the instances screen with the âOpen inâ buttons.
What privileges does each console role have in an Aura instance?
See our documentation on predefined roles for this.
How can I change tool connection settings?
Tool authentication via user accounts is an optional feature, and can be enabled or disabled per instance or at the project level.
How can I change the role of a user within my project?
Click on the user management menu item and edit the role of the user.
What happens when I turn tool connection settings OFF after having them ON first?
All users within the project will not be able to access this particular instance unless using database username/password authentication.
How long does it take for a console role change to apply to instance access using automatic tool authentication?
After changing a userâs console role, there will be a short period (typically < 5 minutes) after which the predefined role associated with the Aura user will change across all instances.
Is there anything I need to know if I also use SSO?
If you use SSO for instance level access, then Tool authentication is unlikely to be necessary. Please be aware that enabling this setting will grant all users of the project access to the instances with their privileges determined by the role, and will be in addition to SSO access.
Weâre collecting feedback on this release - please let us know your thoughts here.
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