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Amazon Aurora

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What is Amazon Aurora?

Amazon Aurora is a global-scale relational database service built for the cloud with full MySQL and PostgreSQL compatibility.

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Recent Reviews

Amazon RDS Aurora.

9 out of 10
September 25, 2023
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Amazon aurora was used for audit purposes. The main purpose was to audit IoT device activities performed by end user. All the information …
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AWS Aurora Review

8 out of 10
September 22, 2023
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In our organization, we leverage Amazon Aurora as a critical component of our database infrastructure. Aurora is a high-performance, fully …
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Cost effective

9 out of 10
September 19, 2023
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  • Primarily use it in our core payments platform given that we need strong ACID properties but we’re looking to transition to dynamodb soon …
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Popular Features

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  • Automated backups (25)
    9.4
    94%
  • Database scalability (26)
    9.4
    94%
  • Automatic software patching (26)
    8.9
    89%
  • Monitoring and metrics (25)
    8.7
    87%

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Employee in Information Technology
Industrial Automation Company, 51-200 employees
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Engineer in Engineering
Information Technology & Services Company, 1001-5000 employees
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Features

Database-as-a-Service

Database as a Service (DBaaS) software, sometimes referred to as cloud database software, is the delivery of database services ocer the Internet as a service

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Service Offering Details

What is Amazon Aurora?

Amazon Aurora is a MySQL and PostgreSQL-compatible relational database built for the cloud, built to combine the performance and availability of enterprise databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open source databases. The vendor states Amazon Aurora is up to 5X faster than MySQL databases and 3X faster than PostgreSQL databases, and that it provides the security, availability, and reliability of commercial databases at 1/10th the cost.

Amazon Aurora features a distributed, fault-tolerant, self-healing storage system that auto-scales up to 64TB per database instance. It delivers performance and availability with up to 15 low-latency read replicas, point-in-time recovery, continuous backup to Amazon S3, and replication across three Availability Zones (AZs).

The vendor invites readers to learn more details on how they designed Amazon Aurora, from AWS CTO, Werner Vogels.

Amazon Aurora Screenshots

Screenshot of A look inside the RDS console.

Amazon Aurora Videos

How to create a first database cluster on Amazon Aurora.
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Amazon Aurora Availability

GeographyNAMER, EMEA, APAC, LATAM
Supported LanguagesEnglish, French, Chinese, Korean, Japanese

Frequently Asked Questions

Amazon Aurora is a global-scale relational database service built for the cloud with full MySQL and PostgreSQL compatibility.

Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle Database, and PostgreSQL are common alternatives for Amazon Aurora.

Reviewers rate Database scalability and Automated backups highest, with a score of 9.4.

The most common users of Amazon Aurora are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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September 22, 2023

Great, intuitive and a must have with larger businesses

Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Information Technology & Services Company, 1001-5000 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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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.
September 22, 2023

AWS Aurora Review

Verified User
Employee in Information Technology
Education Management Company, 11-50 employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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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.
September 21, 2023

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

Verified User
Manager in Information Technology
Computer Software Company, 51-200 employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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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.
September 20, 2023

A powerful RDBMS

Ayush Dutta | TrustRadius Reviewer
Ayush Dutta
Game Developer
Itch.io (Computer Games, 1-10 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
September 19, 2023

Aurora Serverless is the perfect database as a service in scalability if you do not want headaches or waste time managing databases.

Verified User
Technician in Information Technology
Newspapers Company, 11-50 employees
Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User
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Likelihood to Recommend
Very good for auto-scalable web environments with variable loads. Especially in its Aurora Serverless version. It is more expensive than the normal RDS, but it is worth it for the simplicity of scalability.Aurora Serverless v2 fixes many of the limitations of v1.
September 19, 2023

Best Serverless computing platform.

Verified User
Team Lead in Information Technology
Information Technology & Services Company, 1001-5000 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Best thing about Aurora is that it is server less and relational database. I like it personally because of its performance which is quite impressive and its instances provide us a great experience. Also if Aurora have a script embedded in it so that we can our queries easily and there will be no requirement of other services to make the connection of the database.
September 19, 2023

Cost effective

Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Financial Services Company, 501-1000 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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Likelihood to Recommend
  • Great for when you need ACID/strong transaction semantics, dealing with financial data or anything structured
  • As you keep scaling beyond sharding/partitioning particularly for unstructured data it makes sense to start exploring NoSql/DynamoDb for your needs as somethings like scaling are achieved automatically with dynamodb. It’s sort of like have a dial where you can scale up or down based on the needs of your system.
September 19, 2023

Amazon Aurora - what an excellent solution for Database problems

Iván García | TrustRadius Reviewer
Iván García
Consultant
Datum, S.A. (Computer Software, 11-50 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
If you are in need of an MySQL or PostgreSQL database, forget about using those engines on your own, installing and maintaining them in your own servers. Instead use Aurora MySQL or PostgreSQL compatibility on AWS. You will be free from the heavylifting by allowing RDS to take care of updates, patching, backups and maintenance of the database and servers.
You simply will have to connect to the dabase and take care of the data.
September 19, 2023

Migrating your databases to Amazon Aurora to reduce Storage Costs

Judy L. Berglund | TrustRadius Reviewer
Judy L. Berglund
Sr Systems Engineer
Dell EMC (Architecture & Planning, 10,001+ employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
I think Amazon Aurora is well suited in the database arena. Amazon Aurora abstracts the connections of the database instances relationships, with a sophisticated link point mechanism, achieving more speed when processing intermediate data, which is extremely positive for large volumes of data that need to be processed quickly. In my experience, Amazon Aurora is a powerful tool when replicating data, since it manages everything in its platform with read-only queries.
September 19, 2023

Even better than Amazon RDS

Verified User
Contributor in Research & Development
Biotechnology Company, 5001-10,000 employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
I think Amazon Aurora is well suited for migrating on-premise MySQL databases to the cloud, or for migrating existing Amazon RDS instances to a platform that's more suited for concurrency and high throughput applications. In my opinion, it's not (currently) appropriate for any database engines other than MySQL and PostgreSQL.
September 18, 2023

Amazing Amazon Aurora

Verified User
Employee in Customer Service
Education Management Company, 1001-5000 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
This software is well suited to use when you need to compare data between sites and quarters. It is very good at these times as it brings the data over clearly between these times. It helps to compare to other National data standards. It is less appropriate to use if you are not comparing the data to another time or other companies data.
August 21, 2023

Unveiling Amazon Aurora: Empowering High-Performance Data Management in the Cloud

Manthan Dhola | TrustRadius Reviewer
Manthan Dhola
Solutions Architect
BIDAYA TECH (Computer Software, 11-50 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
  • Online Gaming Platforms
  • High Traffic Websites - Websites and web applications with heavy traffic loads can benefit from Aurora's scalability and read/write performance, ensuring responsive user experiences even during peak traffic times.
  • E-Commerce Platforms
  • Content Management Systems (CMS)
  • Analytical and Reporting Workloads - Organizations performing complex analytical queries and generating reports from large datasets can benefit from Aurora's performance optimizations and compatibility with popular reporting tools.
July 28, 2023

Amazon Aurora Just Works

Lalitha Devi Segu | TrustRadius Reviewer
Lalitha Devi Segu
Advisor in Engineering
Dell Technologies (Information Technology & Services, 10,001+ employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Amazon Aurora just works.My experience with Amazon Aurora has been nothing but excellent. The Aurora database platform has been easy to deploy, configure, monitor, and maintain, and its performance capabilities have been able to handle any amount of workload we've thrown at it.
June 28, 2023

It is an amazing service!

Verified User
Team Lead in Information Technology
Information Technology & Services Company, 11-50 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
As we just used the service to learn its basics, all systems seemed worked perfectly. I must say that overall, I’m very impressed. There are A LOT of limitations with this first release, but I believe that Amazon will do what Amazon does best, and keep iterating until this thing is rock solid.
June 27, 2023

Best performance, at a cost

Ed Mandret | TrustRadius Reviewer
Ed Mandret
Platform Engineer
Codurance Ltd (Information Technology & Services, 51-200 employees)
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Thanks to a completely different storage orchestration layer, Aurora supports far more concurrent IOPS than its counterpart, Amazon RDS, which uses individual EBS volumes. Thus, Aurora truly shines where high-performance is a major concern.

Also, Aurora supports a serverless DB cluster option, which is able to scale up/down based on application needs to save money. This is particularly suited for intermittent, unpredictable or infrequent workloads, where performance and reliability still matter.
June 27, 2023

Exceeds expectation when using Amazon Aurora

Avantika Sikand | TrustRadius Reviewer
Avantika Sikand
Cloud Engineer
Oracle (Health, Wellness and Fitness, 10,001+ employees)
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Aurora backs up the cluster volume automatically and retains restore data for the length of the backup retention period this helps in scenarios where application restore is needed. It also offers better disaster recovery so this can be used for supporting disaster recovery plans.While Amazon RDS supports five database engines, Amazon Aurora supports just two. If you use MariaDB, Oracle, or Microsoft SQL Server, you have to fall back to RDS.
May 20, 2023

Aurora: To Use or Not to Use.

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
201-500 employees
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
It really depends on the use case. Do they really like Aurora and all the performance that it brings? Can they legally lag behind release versions by months? Since cost is also a major factor, the recommendation would have to be justified. The benefits are great, in most cases, Aurora isn't needed.
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