Amazon Aurora High Level Review
July 24, 2022
Amazon Aurora High Level Review

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Amazon Aurora
Amazon Aurora is a great product as it provides us with a cloud-native DB that provides MySQL and Postgres compatibility while simultaneously offering all the benefits of a cloud-native product - built-in security, continuous backups, serverless computing, and high integration with other AWS Services. It is ideal for powering a number of web applications based on the LAMP or LAPP stack.
Pros
- Scale
- Elasticity
- Durability
- Security
Cons
- Opinionated in the way it does things
- Tight AWS integration
- Scale
- Elasticity
- Durability
- High Availability
- Cost
- Ease of use
- Positive ROI, hard to estimate.
- Shortens time to value significantly.
- Cost savings due to pay as you go model.
- Google BigQuery, Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) and Oracle Autonomous Database
Aurora offers an easy-to-use MySQL or Postgres compatible database that is cloud native. This is great for LAMP / LAPP stack applications as it shortens development time considerably as you no longer need to spend time setting up databases, setting up database backups, and so on. The serverless options also allow for great cost savings as capacity management is quite hands-off and allows for great flexibility and savings - which are important, especially in lean startup environments.
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
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