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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
Incentivized
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
Incentivized
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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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

9.1
Avg 8.7
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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.
What's new in Amazon Aurora

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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September 25, 2023

Amazon RDS Aurora.

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
September 22, 2023

AWS Aurora Review

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
September 20, 2023

A powerful RDBMS

Ayush Dutta | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
September 19, 2023

Cost effective

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • 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
Iván García | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Judy L. Berglund | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
September 18, 2023

Amazing Amazon Aurora

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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
September 13, 2023

Awesome auRora

Ron Brown | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Manthan Dhola | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Brooke Steed | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Ed Mandret | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Avantika Sikand | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
April 03, 2023

Amazon Aurora Review

Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Amazon Aurora to be as efficient as possible with our business. Specifically with data Amazon Aurora, we're able to store and aggregate the date we collect and use it to our advantage. It helps us find opportunities to pursue and other that aren't worth working towards. There are so many opportunities in this world and Amazon Aurora helps us decide what is to focus on.
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