Aurora Serverless is the perfect database as a service in scalability if you do not want headaches or waste time managing databases.
September 19, 2023
Aurora Serverless is the perfect database as a service in scalability if you do not want headaches or waste time managing databases.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Amazon Aurora
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.
For its easy scalability, maintenance and high SLA.
- scalability
- maintenance
- SLA
- Price
- Legacy versions
- Compatibility with third party products for replication or backups.
- Less time wasted by Sysadmin and DBAdmin to manage non-value-added tasks.
- Quicker installation and auto-scaling (in its Aurora Serverless version)
- Ease of backup, snapshot, replication, cloning for migrations
- Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)
Simple and scalable
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 Aurora Feature Ratings
Using Amazon Aurora
10 - Sysadmin, devops & developers
4 - Sysadmins
- Website DB
- Datawarehouse
- Internal DB
- Serverless
- Autoscale
- New websites
- New internal product
Evaluating Amazon Aurora and Competitors
Yes - Orable Mysql, Percona, MariaDB
- Cloud Solutions
- Scalability
- Ease of Use
Scalability and Ease of use, because in my company there are not DB Admin.
Should have waited a bit for Aurora Serverless v1 to mature, because it lacks some autoscaling functionality (it stops when scaling) and scaling steps, which have been improved in v2.