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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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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 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.
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Amazon Aurora is a global-scale relational database service built for the cloud with full MySQL and PostgreSQL compatibility.
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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September 25, 2023
Amazon RDS Aurora.
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.
- Fetch performance is great.
- Huge cluster size.
- Easy to setup.
- Supports InnoDB.
- Does not support small RDS.
September 22, 2023
Great, intuitive and a must have with larger businesses
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.
- Concurrency
- Excellent transaction time
- Perfect compatibility with our sites
- Ease of scaling
- 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
September 22, 2023
AWS Aurora Review
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.
- High Availability and Fault Tolerance
- High Performance
- Backup and Restore feature
- It has a limited support for non-SQL/PostgreSQL engines
- More integration with other AWS services
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
- Scalability
- Availability
- Low Latency
- Reasonable Cost
- Schema update was challenging, but it is difficult for RDBMS in general
September 22, 2023
Excellent low maintenance and self administration qualities with Amazon Aurora DB.
We use RDS/Amazon Aurora for some of our legacy databases that we need to retain for governmental reporting on a low frequency basis.
- Scalability
- Enable and disable database as needed
- Database administration
- Training and examples for vairoud use cases
September 21, 2023
Amazon Aurora: Empowering Scalability and Performance for Modern Database Management.
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.
- High availability.
- Compatibility.
- High throughput.
- Cost
- Complexity
September 20, 2023
A powerful RDBMS
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.
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.
- Powerful data handling
- Migration facility
- Cost effective application
- GUI
- Interaction
September 20, 2023
Amazon Aurora Another AWS managed DB
- It's a AWS managed DB well supported
- Auto upgrades
- Snapshots
- Backups
- It's an standard DB
September 19, 2023
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It is very useful
- High performance
- high availability
- scalability
- Limited Availability of Compatibility Versions
- Complexity in Cross-Region Replication
- Storage Scaling Limitations
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.
I use it as my company's main Mysql & Postgresql databases for development and productive web environments.
For its easy scalability, maintenance and high SLA.
For its easy scalability, maintenance and high SLA.
- scalability
- maintenance
- SLA
- Price
- Legacy versions
- Compatibility with third party products for replication or backups.
September 19, 2023
Best Serverless computing platform.
Amazon Aurora helps me and my organisation to collect and review in the course of analyzing the query performance. It is very persuasive in nature. Even we can write codes using three easy accessible steps and even it stores six backups eventually while writing the codes in their platform. Best thing about this Aurora is if our one of the instance has been failed this will automatically use replicas to repair them and also create new instance automatically. Even their servers are clean and their indexing capabilities are complete.
- Able to work on very big databases without any interruptions.
- One of the best things about Aurora is everything is hosted in the cloud with wider capabilities.
- It is easy to implement, and the interface is easy to access.
- Very quick instances can be connected without the loss of data.
- Its interface is quite simple but repetitive in nature.
- Database authentication problems can be improved.
- Sometimes logical errors occur which is annoying in nature.
September 19, 2023
Cost effective
- Primarily use it in our core payments platform given that we need strong ACID properties but we’re looking to transition to dynamodb soon given that dynamodb also has transaction semantics
- It is our de facto database for starting any new microservice
- Cost effective relational database
- High availability in multiple regions
- Fully managed
- I/O costs are incurred
- Not fully MySQL compatible especially if you’re using something very specific to mysql
- Might hit the upper limit on max number of connections
September 19, 2023
Amazon Aurora - what an excellent solution for Database problems
As any company that have to use a database to store information not only for the business data but also for different applications, we decided to use Aurora MySQL to ease the administration and be safe that AWS will handle all patching, updates, backups and maintenance of the database.
- No need to provision storage nor IOPS for the disks
- Automatics continuos backups with the possibility to point-in-time restore in new database or backtrack to a point in time in the same database
- Increase availability by using Read Replicas and also distributing read capacity using them for queries
- If using Aurora Serverles v2 one thing missing is the possibility to reduce it to 0 ACU
September 19, 2023
Migrating your databases to Amazon Aurora to reduce Storage Costs
Amazon Aurora is characterized by high availability and performance in the cloud that few tools of the same characteristics offer, the cost is initially 10GB for free, but then costs increase but the amount of capacity used, however it can be really low and its use guarantees integrated security, with regular backups and fully protected by the Amazon Aurora system. It's a fully managed system which reduces the workload and automates many daily tasks that would take a lot of time to perform manually. Another important point to take into account is that the tool automatically recovers from any failure, if one of our instances fails the system uses replicas to repair them creating new instances automatically.
- Efficient monitoring of databases such as SQL, etc.
- Fully automatic scaling
- Fully encrypted backups
- Price
- Complex configurations
- Technical Support could be better
September 19, 2023
Even better than Amazon RDS
We have migrated some of our Amazon RDS workloads to Amazon Aurora with the hope of achieving better performance, scalability, security, and fault tolerance.
- Concurrency
- Fault tolerance
- Latency
- Cost
September 18, 2023
Amazing Amazon Aurora
We use Amazon aurora to manage large quantities of data for our company. We are able to see different challenges and positives that we are having. It is useful to use in our case because we manage a large amount of data. This relational database is user friendly that we can assign our college hires to use
- Data management
- Relational data
- Comparisons
- Notifications
September 13, 2023
Awesome auRora
We currently use Aurora PostgreSQL to manage our real estate agents information that allow our agent to schedule clients listing appointments. We provide services to MLS across the country we managed this particular MLS application in the cloud which cost benefit for them and easier to manage for them.
- Simple to setup and configure
- Add additional replicas if needed
- Cost effective
- All good
- Working for us
August 31, 2023
Amazon Aurora Review
We use Amazon Aurora as our primary database used for hosting our Edtech SaaS Platform GIDE.AI
- Transactional Queries
- Storage Scale Up
- Higher Performance
- Compatibility with Mysql
- Super Easy Cluster Mode setup
- On the fly DB Vertical Scaling could be useful
- Connection Display & stats can be present to see and improve app design
We use Aurora MySQL for the database of Magento 2. This handles the load very fine and is has 100% uptime with low resilience and no packet loss. Moreover we use Aurora for scalability from the Read replicas used for read transactions and scaling the database. The restore in time feature also allows us if we need to restore the database for specific time of the day.
- 100% Uptime with no packet losses
- Scalability with read replicas
- fully managed database
- Restore Point in Time
- Handel more load than mysql
- Parallel Queries supported
- Improve Response time
- Add write replica for scaling
- database caching
July 28, 2023
Amazon Aurora Just Works
- Easy to deploy
- Easy to configure
- easy to monitor
- very user friendly and awesome tool
July 20, 2023
Resource Manager/Recruiter
Our day to day work requires the handling of sensitive information day in and day out. That being said - Security and backups are absolutely crucial to the company's ability to successfully and ethically work. Amazon Aurora provides these services on the front and back end simultaniously while we focus on our objectives.
- Provides continuous backups while other applications are running without causing any interruption in production.
- Provides built-in security features i.e. encryption at rest and in-transit, making sure that our data is secure both during storage and transmission.
- Allows us to easily monitor the database's performance metrics and analyze them to optimize query performance and identify any potential issues.
- Improve the ability to handle time zone conversions and daylight saving time.
- Geospatial data is becoming increasingly important in various applications, and Aurora currently lacks built-in support for geospatial data types and functions.
- I think allowing and enchancing schema changes would improve the overall database management experience.
June 28, 2023
It is an amazing service!
We used Amazon Aurora to see how to increase the efficiency and learn AWS Services. Amazon Aurora Serverless is an on-demand, autoscaling configuration for Amazon Aurora. It automatically starts up, shuts down, and scales capacity up or down based on your application's needs. You can run your database in the cloud without managing any database instances. It is easy to use and super secure. On a data base instance running with aurora encryption, data store automated backup, replicas and snapshots in the same cluster.
- Integration and Deployment
- Service and Support
- Product Capabilities
- Security
- Better price
- Good documentation
- High availability
June 27, 2023
Best performance, at a cost
Amazon does offer two relational database services, namely RDS and Aurora. While both very similar, there are key differences in how they persist data on disk. RDS uses EBS volumes, which are limited up to 16k concurrent IOPS. On the other hand, Aurora uses a virtual storage cluster that supports up to 80k concurrent IOPS. When dealing with large clients whose database usage might exceed the 16 concurrent IOPS threshold, Aurora was the preferred choice to ensure higher availability.
- High-availability
- Multi-AZ configuration
- Serverless support
- Crash recovery
- Asynchronous replication lag
- Opaque pricing
June 27, 2023
Exceeds expectation when using Amazon Aurora
I use Aurora to integrate it with the SaaS product which helps in database encryption as data security is an important aspect of the product I work for. Also the automated multi-Region replication, and integrations with other AWS services helps me use Aurora with more ease.
- Scale Relational database
- integration with cloudwatch helps with monitoring the database efficiently
- Autoscaling of Aurora clusters
- max connections
- loading data from S3 bucket
- database cloning
May 20, 2023
Aurora: To Use or Not to Use.
My company works on PostgreSQL-related products. With Aurora being so popular, this is something we support through our managed support services. With self-managed EC2, RDS, and Aurora competing for the same space, Aurora is great for large enterprises and most definitely a no-go for startups unless the use case is very specifically defined.
- Fully Managed Database - PostgreSQL.
- Scalability
- High Availability.
- Performant
- Slow in upgrading to minor releases of PostgreSQL.
- Aurora releases major versions of PostgreSQL with a massive lag.
- Cost is obviously a concern.