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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.

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
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.

  • 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
Aurora Serverless is a great database-as-a-service with minimal downtime and fast failover :-)
  • 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

Very good for auto-scalable web environments with variable loads. Especially in its Aurora Serverless version. It is more expensive than the normal RDS, but it is worth it for the simplicity of scalability.Aurora Serverless v2 fixes many of the limitations of v1.

Amazon Aurora Feature Ratings

Database-as-a-Service
9.2
Automatic software patching
9
Database scalability
9
Automated backups
10
Database security provisions
9
Monitoring and metrics
9
Automatic host deployment
9

Using Amazon Aurora

10 - Sysadmin, devops & developers
4 - Sysadmins
  • Website DB
  • Datawarehouse
  • Internal DB
  • Serverless
  • Autoscale
  • New websites
  • New internal product
Is perfect for my usage. In my company there are no DB Admins :-)

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.