Item: Amazon Aurora
Rating: 9
Author: Verified User

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

Pros and Cons

Integration and Deployment
Service and Support
Product Capabilities
Security

Better price
Good documentation
High availability

Return on Investment

Charge you only for what you use
Provide continuous scaling

Reliability and Availability

It has high availability and durability compare to others. It’s fully-managed, ridiculously fast (up to 5x faster than MySQL), and can scale using shared-storage read replicas and multi availability zone deployments. This extra power (and convenience) comes with an added cost (~23% more per hour), but I’ve found it to be well worth it.

Key Insights

Do you think Amazon Aurora delivers good value for the price?

Not sure

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

Other Software Used

PostgreSQL, MySQL, Amazon RDS on VMware

Likelihood to Recommend

As we just used the service to learn its basics, all systems seemed worked perfectly. I must say that overall, I’m very impressed. There are A LOT of limitations with this first release, but I believe that Amazon will do what Amazon does best, and keep iterating until this thing is rock solid.

It is an amazing service!

Overall Satisfaction with Amazon Aurora