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Amazon Aurora Reviews and Ratings

Rating: 8.6 out of 10
Score
8.6 out of 10

Reviews

45 Reviews

Easy to use, configure and maintain

Rating: 9 out of 10

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We currently use Amazon Aurora across all of our clients and have recently migrated over to the V2 type. This is a great product offered by AWS as it solves a lot of the maintenance problems we would otherwise have to address, and it offers high performance and easy to configure and change parameters.

Pros

  • Easy to maintain
  • Easy to configure
  • Can change instance types quickly
  • Offers great DR options

Cons

  • Sometimes too many options of instance types, versions, engines, etc. so can get confusing

Likelihood to Recommend

Amazon Aurora helps us create multiple database instance with minimal effort. They are easy to maintain, easy to update or change any of their configurations. They offer great performance and many types of analytics.

Vetted Review
Amazon Aurora
8 years of experience

Amazon RDS Aurora.

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Amazon aurora was used for audit purposes. The main purpose was to audit IoT device activities performed by end user. All the information is fed into Aurora database and later use to analytics purpose what activities are performed by user. Also provide user the history of their activities.

Pros

  • Fetch performance is great.
  • Huge cluster size.
  • Easy to setup.

Cons

  • Supports InnoDB.
  • Does not support small RDS.

Likelihood to Recommend

It's suited where you have enterprise applications and integrate open-source databases without requiring a license.

Vetted Review

Great, intuitive and a must have with larger businesses

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Amazon Aurora comes with an easy to use and intuitive workflow. Our business started using Amazon Aurora to handle vast websites with huge content and file systems. We nearly have 500+ websites and all of them use Amazon Aurora. As far as I know, everything has been seamless until now. Of course there were hiccups in the between with some outages but were handled by Amazon Aurora support very well.

Pros

  • Concurrency
  • Excellent transaction time
  • Perfect compatibility with our sites
  • Ease of scaling

Cons

  • Little less transparent on insights
  • Non-availability of standalone solutions. I understand amazon aims for cloud based solution. But having a facility with standalone will look great
  • Lastly, of course pricing could be more dynamic so we can only pay for what we opt for

Likelihood to Recommend

We have around 500+ websites in which we are using Amazon Aurora. Most of them are huge in terms of content and transactions per minute that the databases handle. In my opinion, database encryption is well defined. It automatically upsizes, upscales the clusters that it provides per database.

Once we had an outage for around 30hours. We have one website which sends around 1.5k files at a time monthly to another vendor using the database. We had an outage once and had a backlog of around 12k files not being sent to our other vendor. But, support team was readily available in shifts the whole time, they passed on notes of what and how much work is done to their colleagues and resolved the issue within 30hours (which would have easily taken 4-5 working days to understand) for us.

Vetted Review

AWS Aurora Review

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In our organization, we leverage Amazon Aurora as a critical component of our database infrastructure. Aurora is a high-performance, fully managed relational database service that provides compatibility with MySQL and PostgreSQL. Our organization uses Amazon Aurora to address several business problems and improve the efficiency and reliability of our applications.

Pros

  • High Availability and Fault Tolerance
  • High Performance
  • Backup and Restore feature

Cons

  • It has a limited support for non-SQL/PostgreSQL engines
  • More integration with other AWS services

Likelihood to Recommend

Amazon Aurora is very well suited in situations where the application requires high scalability and has variable and unpredictable workloads. Also, real-time analysis and reporting could be performed easily using Aurora's read replica feature. Aurora might not be a good fit for applications that rely more on other cloud-based services such as Azure since there are some issues with regards to integrations.

Vetted Review

Great resource for product that requires great scalability with high availability

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

My organization uses Amazon Aurora as a database to store customer request information at scale. We also scan the database at a minimum of every 10 minutes to produce telemetry towards insights on customer usage

Pros

  • Scalability
  • Availability
  • Low Latency
  • Reasonable Cost

Cons

  • Schema update was challenging, but it is difficult for RDBMS in general

Likelihood to Recommend

reasonable resource for large scale with more defined schema. Users should avoid if your schema updates often

Vetted Review

Excellent low maintenance and self administration qualities with Amazon Aurora DB.

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use RDS/Amazon Aurora for some of our legacy databases that we need to retain for governmental reporting on a low frequency basis.

Pros

  • Scalability
  • Enable and disable database as needed
  • Database administration

Cons

  • Training and examples for vairoud use cases

Likelihood to Recommend

Perfect for using it workloads where you don't need your database running all day long everyday. With Aurora, you can start and stop the database on demand and save costs also.

Vetted Review

Amazon Aurora: Empowering Scalability and Performance for Modern Database Management.

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Amazon Aurora is a relational database service offered by AWS that is designed for high performance, availability, and scalability. It's compatible with MySQL and PostgreSQL. We use both MySQL and PostgreSQL for our client databases. Depending on our needs.

Pros

  • High availability.
  • Compatibility.
  • High throughput.

Cons

  • Cost
  • Complexity

Likelihood to Recommend

For running a high-traffic e-commerce solution that needs to handle a massive stream of user data, products and deal with inventory updates. It works really well and you can easily add replicas to deal with i.e. load balancing.

Vetted Review

A powerful RDBMS

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

A perfect and powerful database management system, I received this application from one of my colleagues, after changing from many DBs like one them is MongoDB.

It has a powerful life of taking a huge amounts of data, as for long I have been working with data, I wanted a powerful and well working database system for working efficiently and effectively with my data works, well this application has a cool and powerful chain system for making relationships with various data. I loved it.

Pros

  • Powerful data handling
  • Migration facility
  • Cost effective application

Cons

  • GUI
  • Interaction

Likelihood to Recommend

I used many Database management systems , I have even used MySQL, but yeah this is worth of cost and have a good security system, and has a faster deliver speed, which works smoothly and efficiently. Having this I have now stopped looking for other powerful databases, this is a perfect tool for large data handlers.

Amazon Aurora Another AWS managed DB

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using native Amazon Aurora for several customers in his version of mysql and Postgres.

We use Amazon Aurora for Wordpress insatance in E Commerce portals

Pros

  • It's a AWS managed DB well supported
  • Auto upgrades
  • Snapshots
  • Backups

Cons

  • It's an standard DB

Likelihood to Recommend

I really like Amazon Aurora for use as an db for an instance of Wordpress.

I think the performance is really good especially when you use it in a transactional use case.

Amazon Aurora Internals

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

It is very useful

Pros

  • High performance
  • high availability
  • scalability

Cons

  • Limited Availability of Compatibility Versions
  • Complexity in Cross-Region Replication
  • Storage Scaling Limitations

Likelihood to Recommend

High Traffic Web Applications:Aurora is an excellent choice for high-traffic web applications that require fast response times and high availability. Its ability to scale both read and write operations makes it a strong contender.