Item: Amazon Aurora
Rating: 8
Author: Verified User

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In our organization, we leverage Amazon Aurora as a critical component of our database infrastructure. Aurora is a high-performance, fully managed relational database service that provides compatibility with MySQL and PostgreSQL. Our organization uses Amazon Aurora to address several business problems and improve the efficiency and reliability of our applications.

Pros and Cons

High Availability and Fault Tolerance
High Performance
Backup and Restore feature

It has a limited support for non-SQL/PostgreSQL engines
More integration with other AWS services

Return on Investment

Higher scalability and performance
Less down time and higher availability
reduced administration overload

Reliability and Availability

Aurora has a very high availability due to its multi-zone availability as well as its failover capabilities. Amazon replicates it's data in multiple regions leading to high availability and low data latency. On the other hand, other service providers might not have that high performance since they can't match the infrastructure as massive as that of AWS.

Alternatives Considered

Azure Database

Aurora offers automatic scaling for both read and write operations. While Azure does provide that option too, the easy of using Aurora and higher. Also, Aurora has a very high availability too.

Key Insights

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

Other Software Used

Amazon DynamoDB

Likelihood to Recommend

Amazon Aurora is very well suited in situations where the application requires high scalability and has variable and unpredictable workloads. Also, real-time analysis and reporting could be performed easily using Aurora's read replica feature. Aurora might not be a good fit for applications that rely more on other cloud-based services such as Azure since there are some issues with regards to integrations.

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Overall Satisfaction with Amazon Aurora