Overview
What is Amazon Aurora?
Amazon Aurora is a global-scale relational database service built for the cloud with full MySQL and PostgreSQL compatibility.
Great, intuitive and a must have with larger businesses
AWS Aurora Review
Great resource for product that requires great scalability with high availability
Excellent low maintenance and self administration qualities with Amazon Aurora DB.
Amazon Aurora: Empowering Scalability and Performance for Modern Database Management.
A powerful RDBMS
Amazon Aurora Internals
Aurora Serverless is the perfect database as a service in scalability if you do not want headaches or waste time managing databases.
For its easy scalability, …
Best Serverless computing platform.
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 …
Amazon Aurora - what an excellent solution for Database problems
Migrating your databases to Amazon Aurora to reduce Storage Costs
Even better than Amazon RDS
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Popular Features
- Automated backups (25)9.494%
- Database scalability (26)9.494%
- Automatic software patching (26)8.989%
- Monitoring and metrics (25)8.787%
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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
- 8.9Automatic software patching(26) Ratings
Patches applied to database automatically
- 9.4Database scalability(26) Ratings
Ease of scaling compute or memory resources and storage up or down
- 9.4Automated backups(25) Ratings
Automated backup enabling point-in-time data recovery
- 9.2Database security provisions(24) Ratings
Provision for database encryption, network isolation, and identity access management
- 8.7Monitoring and metrics(25) Ratings
Built-in monitoring of multiple operational metrics
- 9.1Automatic host deployment(23) Ratings
Compute instance replacement in the event of hardware failure
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What is Amazon Aurora?
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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Geography | NAMER, EMEA, APAC, LATAM |
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Supported Languages | English, French, Chinese, Korean, Japanese |
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(1-25 of 44)Amazon RDS Aurora.
- Fetch performance is great.
- Huge cluster size.
- Easy to setup.
- Supports InnoDB.
- Does not support small RDS.
Great, intuitive and a must have with larger businesses
- 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
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.
AWS Aurora Review
- 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
- Scalability
- Availability
- Low Latency
- Reasonable Cost
- Schema update was challenging, but it is difficult for RDBMS in general
Excellent low maintenance and self administration qualities with Amazon Aurora DB.
- Scalability
- Enable and disable database as needed
- Database administration
- Training and examples for vairoud use cases
Amazon Aurora: Empowering Scalability and Performance for Modern Database Management.
- High availability.
- Compatibility.
- High throughput.
- Cost
- Complexity
A powerful RDBMS
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
Amazon Aurora Another AWS managed DB
- It's a AWS managed DB well supported
- Auto upgrades
- Snapshots
- Backups
- It's an standard DB
I think the performance is really good especially when you use it in a transactional use case.
Amazon Aurora Internals
- High performance
- high availability
- scalability
- Limited Availability of Compatibility Versions
- Complexity in Cross-Region Replication
- Storage Scaling Limitations
Aurora Serverless is the perfect database as a service in scalability if you do not want headaches or waste time managing databases.
For its easy scalability, maintenance and high SLA.
- scalability
- maintenance
- SLA
- Price
- Legacy versions
- Compatibility with third party products for replication or backups.
Best Serverless computing platform.
- 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.
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
- 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.
Amazon Aurora - what an excellent solution for Database problems
- 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
You simply will have to connect to the dabase and take care of the data.
Migrating your databases to Amazon Aurora to reduce Storage Costs
- Efficient monitoring of databases such as SQL, etc.
- Fully automatic scaling
- Fully encrypted backups
- Price
- Complex configurations
- Technical Support could be better
Even better than Amazon RDS
- Concurrency
- Fault tolerance
- Latency
- Cost
Amazing Amazon Aurora
- Data management
- Relational data
- Comparisons
- Notifications
Awesome auRora
- Simple to setup and configure
- Add additional replicas if needed
- Cost effective
- All good
- Working for us
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- 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
2. Hosting a Web App
3. Storage of Structured Data
- 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
- 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.
Amazon Aurora Just Works
- Easy to deploy
- Easy to configure
- easy to monitor
- very user friendly and awesome tool
Resource Manager/Recruiter
- 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.
It is an amazing service!
- Integration and Deployment
- Service and Support
- Product Capabilities
- Security
- Better price
- Good documentation
- High availability
Best performance, at a cost
- High-availability
- Multi-AZ configuration
- Serverless support
- Crash recovery
- Asynchronous replication lag
- Opaque pricing
Exceeds expectation when using Amazon Aurora
- 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
Aurora: To Use or Not to Use.
- 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.