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Amazon Aurora High Level Review
July 24, 2022

Amazon Aurora High Level Review

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
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.
  • Scale
  • Elasticity
  • Durability
  • Security
  • 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.
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

Amazon SageMaker, Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS), Google BigQuery
Amazon Aurora is ideal for applications running in the well-known LAMP or LAPP stacks. It's generally great and the benefits of cloud-native elasticity, scale, security, ease to set up replicas and backups, and so on make it ideal for web-based applications. However, you need to be a tiny bit careful when using Aurora - and this is true for all products that generally emulate/simulate products. Generally, the more strange or exotic MySQL or Postgres features you are using, the more problems you're going to have with Aurora. However, as most LAMP/LAPP stacks aren't generally too exotic these tend to be edge cases that can be coded in other fashions.