Very happy with Aurora, especially operationally.
October 18, 2019
Very happy with Aurora, especially operationally.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Amazon Aurora
We use it as our primary data store for customer data. It allows us to handle our large traffic load during peak hours. We use a variable number of reader nodes depending on traffic.
- Adding and removing reader nodes is seamless
- Failover is fast
- Low replication delay on reader nodes
- Some quirks exist with corner case behaviors. e.g. we had some perf issues with GIN indexes.
- A little slow to provide the latest Postgres versions. We'd love to use Postgres 12.
- The endpoints are ok, but we end up implementing our own to better meet our use cases.
- Best practices incur additional data transfer costs. I would expect those not to be charged.
- We can handle our seasonal growth without any problems.
- We have headroom to continue growing.
- Amazon Relational Database Service, IBM Cloud Databases (formerly Compose) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
Aurora has the best performance and lowest operational overhead.
Do you think Amazon Aurora delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with Amazon Aurora's feature set?
Yes
Did Amazon Aurora live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of Amazon Aurora go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy Amazon Aurora again?
Yes